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- 1 Regretful or apologetic for one's actions.
"I am sorry I stepped on your toes. It was an accident."
- 2 Grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
"I feel sorry for you, about your exam results."
- 3 Poor, pitifully sad or regrettable.
"The storm left his garden in a sorry state."
- 4 Pathetic; contemptibly inadequate.
"Bob is a sorry excuse for a football player."
- 1 causing dejection wordnet
- 2 bad; unfortunate wordnet
- 3 feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone wordnet
- 4 without merit; of little or no value or use wordnet
- 1 Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow.
"Sorry! I didn't see that you were on the phone."
- 2 Said as a request to excuse one's unintentional behaviors.
"Oops! Sorry!"
- 3 Said as a request to pass somebody.
"Sorry! Coming through!"
- 4 Used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly.
"Sorry? What was that? The phone cut out."
- 5 Used to correct oneself in speech.
"There are four—sorry, five—local branches of the store."
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- 6 Used as a hedge.
"Sorry, but I don't care what you think."
- 1 The act of saying sorry; an apology.
"The British would do it standing stock still, Latinos would dance their sorries, and Canadians would find a way to apologize on ice."
- 1 To feel sorry (for someone). intransitive, rare, transitive
"Jus' that once I sorried for her. Souls cross the skies o' time, Abbess'd say, like clouds crossin' skies o' the world."
Etymology
From Middle English sory, from Old English sāriġ (“feeling or expressing grief, sorry, grieved, sorrowful, sad, mournful, bitter”), from Proto-West Germanic *sairag, from Proto-Germanic *sairagaz (“sad”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂yro (“hard, rough, painful”). Cognate with Scots sairie (“sad, grieved”), Saterland Frisian seerich (“sore, inflamed”), West Frisian searich (“sad, sorry”), Low German serig (“sick, scabby”), German dialectal sehrig (“sore, sad, painful”), Swedish sårig. By surface analysis, sor(e) + -y. Unrelated to sorrow despite the similarity in form and meaning.
From Middle English sory, from Old English sāriġ (“feeling or expressing grief, sorry, grieved, sorrowful, sad, mournful, bitter”), from Proto-West Germanic *sairag, from Proto-Germanic *sairagaz (“sad”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂yro (“hard, rough, painful”). Cognate with Scots sairie (“sad, grieved”), Saterland Frisian seerich (“sore, inflamed”), West Frisian searich (“sad, sorry”), Low German serig (“sick, scabby”), German dialectal sehrig (“sore, sad, painful”), Swedish sårig. By surface analysis, sor(e) + -y. Unrelated to sorrow despite the similarity in form and meaning.
From Middle English sory, from Old English sāriġ (“feeling or expressing grief, sorry, grieved, sorrowful, sad, mournful, bitter”), from Proto-West Germanic *sairag, from Proto-Germanic *sairagaz (“sad”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂yro (“hard, rough, painful”). Cognate with Scots sairie (“sad, grieved”), Saterland Frisian seerich (“sore, inflamed”), West Frisian searich (“sad, sorry”), Low German serig (“sick, scabby”), German dialectal sehrig (“sore, sad, painful”), Swedish sårig. By surface analysis, sor(e) + -y. Unrelated to sorrow despite the similarity in form and meaning.
From Middle English sory, from Old English sāriġ (“feeling or expressing grief, sorry, grieved, sorrowful, sad, mournful, bitter”), from Proto-West Germanic *sairag, from Proto-Germanic *sairagaz (“sad”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂yro (“hard, rough, painful”). Cognate with Scots sairie (“sad, grieved”), Saterland Frisian seerich (“sore, inflamed”), West Frisian searich (“sad, sorry”), Low German serig (“sick, scabby”), German dialectal sehrig (“sore, sad, painful”), Swedish sårig. By surface analysis, sor(e) + -y. Unrelated to sorrow despite the similarity in form and meaning.
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