sorry
AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Adjective (4)sorrier, sorriest
- feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone“felt regretful over his vanished youth”“regretful over mistakes she had made”“he felt bad about breaking the vase”Synonyms: regretfulbadOpposite unregretfulSee also penitent, repentant
- bad; unfortunate“my finances were in a deplorable state”“a lamentable decision”“her clothes were in sad shape”“a sorry state of affairs”Synonyms: deplorabledistressinglamentablepitifulsadOpposite goodSimilar bad
- without merit; of little or no value or use“a sorry horse”“a sorry excuse”“a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick”“the car was a no-good piece of junk”Synonyms: good-for-nothinggood-for-naughtmeritlessno-accountno-countno-goodOpposite valuableSimilar worthless
- causing dejection“a blue day”“the dark days of the war”“a week of rainy depressing weather”“a disconsolate winter landscape”“the first dismal dispiriting days of November”“a dark gloomy day”“grim rainy weather”Synonyms: bluedarkdingydisconsolatedismalgloomygrimdrabdreardrearyOpposite cheerfulSimilar depressing, cheerless
What does it mean? Question 1 of today’s quiz
Translations
Interjection expression of regret or sorrow
- Spanish
- lo siento
- French
- désolé
- German
- es tut mir leid
- Italian
- mi dispiace
- Portuguese
- desculpa
- Turkish
- özür dilerim
- Russian
- прости́те prostíte
- Arabic
- عذرا ʕuḏran
- Chinese
- 对不起 duìbuqǐ
- Japanese
- ごめんなさい gomennasai
36 more languages
- Dutch
- sorry
- Polish
- przepraszam
- Swedish
- förlåt
- Greek
- συγγνώμη syngnómi
- Korean
- 미안합니다 mianhamnida
- Indonesian
- maaf
- Vietnamese
- xin lỗi
- Hungarian
- bocsánat
- Portuguese (PT)
- desculpa
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 對不起 duìbùqǐ
- Albanian
- më vjen keq
- Breton
- digarezit
- Catalan
- perdó
- Corsican
- scusa
- Czech
- omlouvám se
- Danish
- undskyld
- Esperanto
- mi pardonpetas
- Estonian
- vabandust
- Finnish
- anteeksi
- Georgian
- უკაცრავად uḳacravad
- Hebrew
- מִצְטַעֵר mitsta'ér
- Icelandic
- fyrirgefðu
- Kurdish
- bibore
- Latvian
- piedodiet
- Lithuanian
- atsiprašau
- Malagasy
- miala tsiny
- Norwegian
- beklager
- Romanian
- îmi pare rău
- Scottish Gaelic
- tha mi duilich
- Serbo-Croatian
- oprostite
- Slovak
- prepáč
- Slovenian
- žal mi je
- Swahili
- samahani
- Walloon
- mande escuze
- Welsh
- mae'n ddrwg gen i
- Yiddish
- זײַ מיר מוחל zay mir moykhl
Interjection request to repeat
- Swedish
- ursäkta
- Indonesian
- maaf
- Albanian
- më falni
- Catalan
- perdó
- Danish
- undskyld
- Estonian
- vabandust
- Finnish
- anteeksi
- Georgian
- უკაცრავად uḳacravad
- Hebrew
- סליחה slikha
- Latvian
- atvainojiet
4 more languages
- Romanian
- pardon
- Slovenian
- oprostite
- Swahili
- samahani
- Welsh
- mae'n ddrwg gen i
Adjective poor, regrettable
- Russian
- плаче́вный plačévnyj
- Japanese
- 気の毒 ki no doku
- Swedish
- sorglig
- Czech
- žalostný
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. sory, sary, AS. sārig, fr. sār, noun, sore. See Sore, noun & adjective The original sense was, painful; hence, miserable, sad.
1. Grieved for the loss of some good; pained for some evil; feeling regret; — now generally used to express light grief or affliction, but formerly often used to express deeper feeling. “I am sorry for my sins.” Vision of Piers Plowman
Ye were made sorry after a godly manner.— 2 Cor. vii. 9.
I am sorry for thee, friend; 't is the duke's pleasure.— William Shakespeare
She entered, were he lief or sorry.— Edmund Spenser
2. Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful. Edmund Spenser
All full of chirking was this sorry place.— Geoffrey Chaucer
3. Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse. “With sorry grace.” Geoffrey Chaucer
Cheeks of sorry grain will serve.— John Milton
Good fruit will sometimes grow on a sorry tree.— Sir Walter Scott
Synonyms: Hurt; afflicted; mortified; vexed; chagrined; melancholy; dismal; poor; mean; pitiful.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54