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sorry |
Overview of adj sorry The adj sorry has 7 senses (first 6 from tagged texts) 1. (8) bad sorry -- (keenly sorry or regretful; "felt bad about letting the team down"; "was sorry that she had treated him so badly"; "felt bad about breaking the vase") 2. (3) pitying, sorry, sorry for -- (feeling or expressing sorrow or pity; "a pitying observer threw his coat around her shoulders"; "let him perish without a pitying thought of ours wasted upon him"- Thomas De Quincey) 3. (1) regretful, sorry -- (having 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") 4. (1) contrite, remorseful, rueful, ruthful, sorry -- (feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses) 5. (1) 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") 6. (1) dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry -- (depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams) 7. 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") Antonyms of adj sorry 7 senses of sorry Sense 1 bad sorry INDIRECT (VIA unhappy) -> happy Sense 2 pitying, sorry, sorry for(prenominal) INDIRECT (VIA compassionate) -> uncompassionate Sense 3 regretful (vs. unregretful), sorry Sense 4 contrite, remorseful, rueful, ruthful, sorry INDIRECT (VIA penitent, repentant) -> impenitent, unrepentant, unremorseful INDIRECT (VIA penitent, repentant) -> impenitent, unrepentant, unremorseful Sense 5 deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry INDIRECT (VIA bad) -> good Sense 6 dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry INDIRECT (VIA cheerless) -> cheerful Sense 7 good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry INDIRECT (VIA worthless) -> valuable Similarity of adj sorry 7 senses of sorry Sense 1 bad sorry => unhappy (vs. happy) Sense 2 pitying, sorry, sorry for(prenominal) => compassionate (vs. uncompassionate) Sense 3 regretful (vs. unregretful), sorry Sense 4 contrite, remorseful, rueful, ruthful, sorry => penitent (vs. impenitent), repentant (vs. unrepentant) Sense 5 deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry => bad (vs. good) Sense 6 dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry => cheerless (vs. cheerful), uncheerful Sense 7 good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry => worthless (vs. valuable) Attributes of adj sorry Familiarity of adj sorry sorry used as an adjective is common (polysemy count = 7) Grep of adj sorry sorry sorry for Overview of adj sorry The adj sorry has 7 senses (first 6 from tagged texts) 1. (8) bad sorry -- (keenly sorry or regretful; "felt bad about letting the team down"; "was sorry that she had treated him so badly"; "felt bad about breaking the vase") 2. (3) pitying, sorry, sorry for -- (feeling or expressing sorrow or pity; "a pitying observer threw his coat around her shoulders"; "let him perish without a pitying thought of ours wasted upon him"- Thomas De Quincey) 3. (1) regretful, sorry -- (having 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") 4. (1) contrite, remorseful, rueful, ruthful, sorry -- (feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses) 5. (1) 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") 6. (1) dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry -- (depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams) 7. 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")
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