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

1. regretful, sorry, bad(adj)

   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, sorry(adj)

   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, sorry(adj)

   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, dreary(adj)

   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. sorry(Noun)

   The act of saying sorry; an apology.

2. sorry(Adjective)

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

3. sorry(Adjective)

   Poor, sad or regrettable.

   The storm left his garden in a sorry state.

4. sorry(Interjection)

   Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow.

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

5. sorry(Interjection)

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

   Sorry? What was that? The phone cut out.

Origin: 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. Sorry(adj)

   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. Sorry(adj)

   melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful

3. Sorry(adj)

   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

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. Bill Clinton:

   I'm sorry about that.

2. Nancy Pelosi:

   I'm sorry I got to go.

3. Trish Halfacre:

   Better safe than sorry.

4. Sergio Marchionne:

   better late than sorry.

5. Rob Segal:

   We are profoundly sorry.

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