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 Definitions of Sorry  [ˈsɒr i, ˈsɔr i]  

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Definition of 'Sorry' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) sorry
feeling regret, compunction, sympathy, pity, etc.:
sorry to leave one's friends.

2.  sorry
regrettable or deplorable; unfortunate:
a sorry situation.

3.  sorry
sorrowful; grieved.

4.  sorry
suggestive of grief; melancholy.

5.  sorry
wretched, poor, or useless.

6.  sorry
(used interjectionally as a conventional apology):
Did I bump you? Sorry.

Etymology:  (bef. 900; ME; OE sārig, c. OS, OHG sērag. See sore , -y1)

Definition of 'Sorry' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (adj) regretful, sorry, bad
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"

2. (adj) deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry
bad; unfortunate
"my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"

3. (adj) good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry
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"

4. (adj) blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
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"


Definition of 'Sorry' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (adjective) sorry
feeling regret or embarrassment about sth you have done
I'm sorry I'm late.; He didn't seem sorry about having been so mean.; I'm sorry for laughing, but it is funny.; We were sorry that we had spent all our money.

2.  sorry
feeling pity or sadness for sb
I'm sorry you're not feeling too good.; We were sorry to hear about your accident.; I feel sorry for him having to drive so far.

3.  sorry
feel sorry for yourself
to pity yourself but make no effort to change your situation
What's the point of sitting around feeling sorry for yourself?

4.  sorry
disappointed
I was sorry to hear you can't join us.


Definition of 'Sorry' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) Sorry
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. (adj) Sorry
melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful

3. (adj) Sorry
poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse


Translation of 'Sorry' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: used when apologizing or expressing regret
I'm sorry (that) I forgot to return your book; Did I give you a fright? I'm sorry.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: jammer Arabic flag Arabic: آسِف Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: съжалявам
Brazilian flag Brazilian: sinto muito Czech flag Czech: lituji German flag German: leid tun
Danish flag Danish: ked af det Greek flag Greek: συγγνώμη Spanish flag Spanish: lo siento
Estonian flag Estonian: (mul on) kahju Farsi flag Farsi: تاسف Finnish flag Finnish: anteeksi
French flag French: désolé Hebrew flag Hebrew: מִצטַעֵר Hindi flag Hindi: खेद
Croatian flag Croatian: bitižao (isprika) Hungarian flag Hungarian: (nagyon) sajnálom! Indonesian flag Indonesian: menyesal
Icelandic flag Icelandic: leiður, fullur eftirsjár Italian flag Italian: spiacente, dispiaciuto Japanese flag Japanese: ごめんなさい
Korean flag Korean: 미안한 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: apgailestaujantis, atsipr Latvian flag Latvian: Atvainojiet!
Malay flag Malay: maaf Dutch flag Dutch: spijt Norwegian flag Norwegian: lei seg
Polish flag Polish: zmartwiony Persian flag Persian: تاسف Pashto flag Pashto: خواشینی
Portuguese flag Portuguese: peço desculpa Romanian flag Romanian: dezolat Russian flag Russian: сожалеющий; извиняющийся
Slovak flag Slovak: prepáčte, ľutujem Slovenian flag Slovenian: žal mi je Serbian flag Serbian: izvini
Swedish flag Swedish: ledsen Thai flag Thai: ที่ขอโทษ Turkish flag Turkish: üzgünüm, özür dilerim
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 抱歉的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: вибачте!; перепрошую Urdu flag Urdu: افسوس ظاہر کرنے کے لیے مس
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: dùng để xin lỗi, tiếc nuố Chinese flag Chinese: 抱歉的

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