sorry

  • (a) 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
    regretful, bad,
  • (s) bad; unfortunate
    • my finances were in a deplorable state
    • a lamentable decision
    • her clothes were in sad shape
    • a sorry state of affairs
    deplorable, lamentable, distressing, pitiful, sad,
  • (s) 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
    good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good,
  • (s) 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
    dismal, drear, disconsolate, dreary, dingy, gloomy, drab, grim, blue, dark,

Synonyms

regretful bad deplorable lamentable distressing pitiful sad good-for-naught good-for-nothing meritless no-account no-count no-good dismal drear disconsolate dreary dingy gloomy drab grim blue dark

Antonyms

unregretful unregretting

See also

penitent repentant

Words of close approximity

sorb sore sort
Sorex sorgo sorus