Lexic.us

Definition of Sorry

1. Adjective. Feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone. "He felt bad about breaking the vase"

2. Adjective. Bad; unfortunate. "A sorry state of affairs"

3. Adjective. Without merit. "The car was a no-good piece of junk"

4. Adjective. Causing dejection. "Grim rainy weather"

Definition of Sorry

1. a. 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.

Definition of Sorry

1. Adjective. (context: of a person) Regretful for an action; grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone. ¹

2. Adjective. Poor, sad or regrettable. ¹

3. Interjection. Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow. ¹

4. Interjection. Used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly. ¹

5. Noun. The act of saying sorry; an apology. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sorry

1. feeling grief or penitence [adj -RIER, -RIEST]

Medical Definition of Sorry

1. 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. 2. Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful. "All full of chirking was this sorry place." (Chaucer) Synonym: Hurt, afflicted, mortified, vexed, chagrined, melancholy, dismal, poor, mean, pitiful. Origin: OE. Sory, sary, AS. Sarig, fr. Sar, sore. See Sore, & The original sense was, painful; hence. Miserable, sad. (04 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sorry

sorrower sorrowers sorrowes sorroweth sorrowful sorrowfully sorrowfulness sorrowfulnesses sorrowing sorrowing(a)

sorrowingly sorrowless sorrowly sorrows sorrowy sorry (current term) sorry, I'm late sorry for(p) sorryful sorryish

sort sort algorithm sort algorithms sort code sort of sort oneself out sort out sort program sort the wheat from the chaff sorta

Literary usage of Sorry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1846)
"... but though some do say of him that he is the prince of the apostles, they handled him so, that they made him at last afraid of a sorry girl. ..."

Other Resources: