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Sorry   /sˈɑri/   Listen
adjective
Sorry  adj.  (compar. sorrier; superl. sorriest)  
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." "Ye were made sorry after a godly manner." "I am sorry for thee, friend; 't is the duke's pleasure." "She entered, were he lief or sorry."
2.
Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful. "All full of chirking was this sorry place."
3.
Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse. "With sorry grace." "Cheeks of sorry grain will serve." " Good fruit will sometimes grow on a sorry tree."
Synonyms: Hurt; afflicted; mortified; vexed; chagrined; melancholy; dismal; poor; mean; pitiful.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Sorry" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mademoiselle de Duras was very awkward for a long while afterwards in crossing herself, and was once remarked to beat her breast in the litany with the points of two fingers at a time, when every one is taught to use only the second, whether it has a ring upon it or not. I am sorry she did so; for people might think her insincere in her conversion, and pretend that she kept a finger ...
— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor
... Marmaduke, throwing a careless glance at the table, "meseems you are in luck, my good Lambert. Doubtless, you are not sorry now that you allowed ...
— The Nest of the Sparrowhawk • Baroness Orczy
... Hayden now, visited in California in the year of 1912, just prior to my visit there. I was indeed sorry not to have met her again. I met her once since that memorable trip when she suffered frozen feet, and ...
— The Second William Penn - A true account of incidents that happened along the - old Santa Fe Trail • William H. Ryus
... then he would have been sorry he did it. Swagmen and broken-hearted new chums had met worse ...
— The Rising of the Court • Henry Lawson
... nature of the noble fellow could not fail to be hurt when His Majesty (the same who lost us America) stated that, "under all the circumstances, he had thought well to approve." Nelson replied that he was sorry the armistice was only approved under all the circumstances, and then gives His Majesty a slap in the eye by informing him that every part of the all was to the advantage of the King and Country. St. Vincent, ...
— Drake, Nelson and Napoleon • Walter Runciman


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