Thesaurus: sorry

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1. a. 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.
2. a. Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.
3. a. Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse.
4. adj. feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
5. adj. bad; unfortunate
6. adj. without merit; of little or no value or use
7. adj. causing dejection
8. 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. Ye were made sorry after a godly manner. 2 Cor. vii. 9. I am sorry for thee, friend; 't is the duke's pleasure. Shak. She entered, were he lief or sorry. Spenser. 2. Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful. Spenser. All full of chirking was this sorry place. Chaucer. 3. Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse. "With sorry grace." Chaucer. Cheeks of sorry grain will serve. Milton. Good fruit will sometimes grow on a sorry tree. Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- Hurt; afflicted; mortified; vexed; chagrined; melancholy; dismal; poor; mean; pitiful.
9. j:100 a feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone s bad; unfortunate s without merit s causing dejection