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.

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

2. sorryadjective

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

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

3. sorryadjective

   Poor, sad or regrettable.

   The storm left his garden in a sorry state.

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

4. sorryinterjection

   Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow.

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

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

5. sorryinterjection

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

   Sorry? What was that? The phone cut out.

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

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?

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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. Scott Rudin:

   Much has been written about my history of troubling interactions with colleagues, and I am profoundly sorry for the pain my behavior caused to individuals, directly and indirectly.

2. Pauline Musariri:

   Promises mean everything, but after they are broken, sorry means nothing.

3. Will Smith:

   Behind the scenes of that, James Avery was relentless on me to elevate. He wouldn’t give me a damn inch. Everything I said, everything I did, for James Avery it was like, ‘Nope, not good enough. You have this position, look where you are, look what you are blessed with. I’m sorry but I’m not accepting anything other than absolute, committed perfection,’.

4. Carl Force:

   I'm sorry, I lost it and I don't understand a lot of it.

5. Martin Winterkorn:

   I personally am deeply sorry that we have broken the trust of our customers and the public, volkswagen has ordered an external investigation of this matter.

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