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sorry

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sorry  \Sor"ry\,  a.  [Compar.  {Sorrier};  superl.  {Sorriest}.]  [OE. 
  sory,  sary,  AS  s[=a]rig,  fr  s[=a]r,  n.,  sore.  See  {Sore}, 
  n.  &  a.  The  original  sense  was  painful;  hence  miserable, 
  sad.] 
  1.  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.  ``I  am  sorry  for  my  sins.''  --Piers 
  Plowman. 
 
  Ye  were  made  sorry  after  a  godly  manner.  --2  Cor. 
  vii.  9. 
 
  I  am  sorry  for  thee,  friend;  't  is  the  duke's 
  pleasure.  --Shak. 
 
  She  entered,  were  he  lief  or  sorry.  --Spenser. 
 
  2.  Melancholy;  dismal;  gloomy;  mournful.  --Spenser. 
 
  All  full  of  chirking  was  this  sorry  place 
  --Chaucer. 
 
  3.  Poor;  mean  worthless;  as  a  sorry  excuse.  ``With  sorry 
  grace.''  --Chaucer. 
 
  Cheeks  of  sorry  grain  will  serve.  --Milton. 
 
  Good  fruit  will  sometimes  grow  on  a  sorry  tree. 
  --Sir  W. 
  Scott. 
 
  Syn:  Hurt;  afflicted;  mortified;  vexed;  chagrined; 
  melancholy;  dismal;  poor;  mean  pitiful. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sorry 
  adj  1:  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"  [syn:  {bad}] 
  2:  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  [syn:  {pitying},  {sorry  for(p)}] 
  3:  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"  [syn:  {regretful}] 
  [ant:  {unregretful}] 
  4:  feeling  or  expressing  pain  or  sorrow  for  sins  or  offenses 
  [syn:  {contrite},  {remorseful},  {rueful}] 
  5:  very  bad  "my  finances  were  in  a  deplorable  state";  "a 
  lamentable  decision";  "her  clothes  were  in  sad  shape";  "a 
  sorry  state  of  affairs"  [syn:  {deplorable},  {distressing}, 
  {lamentable},  {pitiful},  {sad}] 
  6:  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  [syn:  {dingy},  {dismal},  {drab},  {drear}, 
  {dreary},  {gloomy}] 
  7:  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"  [syn:  {good-for-nothing},  {good-for-naught}, 
  {meritless},  {no-account},  {no-count},  {no-good}]




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