Definitions for Sorry
ˈsɒr i, ˈsɔr iSor·ry

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. regretful, sorry, badadjective

   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. deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorryadjective

   bad; unfortunate

   "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"

3. good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorryadjective

   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. blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, drearyadjective

   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"

Wiktionary(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. sorrynoun

   The act of saying sorry; an apology.

2. sorryadjective

   Regretful for an action; grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.

3. sorryadjective

   Poor, sad or regrettable.

   The storm left his garden in a sorry state.

4. sorryinterjection

   Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow.

   Sorry! I didn't see that you were on the phone.

5. sorryinterjection

   Used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly.

   Sorry? What was that? The phone cut out.

6. Etymology: From sory, from sarig, from sairagaz, from sayǝw-. Cognate with serig, dialectal sehrig. More at sore.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Sorryadjective

   Etymology: sarig , Saxon.

   1. Grieved for something past. It is generally used of slight or casual miscarriages or vexations, but sometimes of greater things. It does not imply any long continuance of grief.

   O, forget
   What we are sorry for ourselves in thee. Timon of Athens.

   The king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath’s sake he commanded the Baptist’s head to be given her. Matth. xiv. 9.

   I’m sorry for thee, friend; ’tis the duke’s pleasure. William Shakespeare.

   We are sorry for the satire interspersed in some of these pieces, upon a few people, from whom the highest provocations have been received. Jonathan Swift.

   2. [From saur, filth, Islandick.]Vile; worthless; vexatious.

   A salt and sorry rheum offends me:
   Lend me thy handkerchief. William Shakespeare, Othello.

   How now, why do you keep alone?
   Of sorriest fancies your companions making,
   Using those thoughts, which should, indeed, have died
   With them they think on. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   If the union of the parts consist only in rest, it would seem that a bag of dust would be of as firm a consistence as that of marble; and Bajazet’s cage had been but a sorry prison. Joseph Glanvill.

   Coarse complexions,
   And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply
   The sampler, and to teize the housewife’s wool. John Milton.

   How vain were all the ensigns of his power, that could not su port him against one slighting look of a sorry slave! Roger L'Estrange.

   If this innocent had any relation to his Thebais, the poet might have found some sorry excuse for detaining the reader. Dryden.

   If such a slight and sorry business as that could produce one organical body, one might reasonably expect, that now and then a dead lump of dough might be leavened into an animal. Richard Bentley, Sermons.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Sorryadjective

   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. Sorryadjective

   melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful

3. Sorryadjective

   poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Sorry

   sor′i, adj. grieved for something past: melancholy: poor: worthless.—adj. Sorr′iest (Shak.), most sorrowful.—adv. Sorr′ily.—n. Sorr′iness. [A.S. sárig, wounded—sár, pain; Dut. zeerig.]

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Sorry' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1412

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Sorry' in Written Corpus Frequency: #255

3. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Sorry' in Adjectives Frequency: #98

How to pronounce Sorry?

1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Libby

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Sorry in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Sorry in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Sorry in a Sentence

1. Prince Harry:

   I thought what came through was a very genuine, very loving young couple, working hard to make the best of a pretty difficult road. prince Harry's got to stop feeling sorry for Prince Harry and look at the positives -- shut out the criticism, just ignore it as Prince Harry father has done, and get on with the work, get on with the job.

2. Mackson Shaai:

   Average people you say YOU ARE FULL OF YOURSELF just because you approach everything with positive attitude, and you never feel sorry for yourself.

3. Rebecca Adducci:

   These are all factors that should be considered when making a decision on whether or not to conduct an enforcement action, but the policy, the executive order, I'm sorry, doesn't address that issue.

4. Erin Eldridge:

   You were focused on what you had done because you had just killed somebody, i'm sorry it happened.

5. Hillary Clinton:

   I am sorry that this has been confusing to people and raised questions.

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