sorry

Speech parts

1. sorry - Noun

2. sorry - Adjective

3. sorry - Interjection

4. sorry - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.

Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

dismal pitiful regretful blue penitent poor dark bad guilty sad ashamed melancholy grim apologetic gloomy
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Antonyms

merry jolly good great remorseless bright
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Phrases with the word

I'm sorry sorry, not sorry sorry not sorry cut a sorry figure it's better to be safe than sorry sorry about

Derivatives

sorrier sorriest

Examples

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. Mark Twain

Why did you act in this way, you pitiable ones? Make a bow of repentance, recognize your fault, be sorry for your nakedness. Neither one of them could blame himself, neither of them had the least bit of humility. Dorotheus of Gaza

Love means never having to say you're sorry. Erich Segal

Better be safe than sorry. English Proverb

It's better to be sorry and stay, than to be sorry and go away. Irish Proverb

Praise borrowed from ancestors is but very sorry praise. Danish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

sorrowly sorrowsome sorrowy sorry about sorry business sorry condition