sorry meaning and definition

SORRY adjective

Definition of sorry (adjective)

1. 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"
   • synonyms: bad, regretful
   • antonym: unregretful
2. bad; unfortunate
   • "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
   • synonyms: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad
3. 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"
   • synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good
4. 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"
   • synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim