sorry

Adjective

Synonyms: regretful bad deplorable distressing lamentable pitiful sad good-for-nothing good-for-naught meritless no-account no-count

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (4)

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: regretful bad
bad; unfortunate“my finances were in a deplorable state”“a lamentable decision”“her clothes were in sad shape”“a sorry state of affairs”Synonyms: deplorable distressing lamentable pitiful sad
without merit“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-nothing good-for-naught meritless no-account no-count no-good
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: blue dark dingy disconsolate dismal gloomy grim drab drear dreary

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Sorry \Sor"ry\, a. [Compar. Sorrier; superl. Sorriest.] [OE. sory, sary, AS. s[=a]rig, fr. s[=a]r, n., sore. See Sore, n. & a. 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." --Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster]

Ye were made sorry after a godly manner.— 2 Cor. vii. 9.[1913 Webster]

I am sorry for thee, friend; 't is the duke's pleasure.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

She entered, were he lief or sorry.— Spenser.[1913 Webster]

2.Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

All full of chirking was this sorry place.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]

3.Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse. "With sorry grace." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Cheeks of sorry grain will serve.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

Good fruit will sometimes grow on a sorry tree.— Sir W. Scott.[1913 Webster]

Syn: Hurt; afflicted; mortified; vexed; chagrined; melancholy; dismal; poor; mean; pitiful. [1913 Webster]