sorry

sorry
    adj 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" [syn: {regretful},
           {sorry}, {bad}] [ant: {unregretful}, {unregretting}]
    2: bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state";
       "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a
       sorry state of affairs" [syn: {deplorable}, {distressing},
       {lamentable}, {pitiful}, {sad}, {sorry}]
    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" [syn: {good-for-nothing}, {good-for-naught},
       {meritless}, {no-account}, {no-count}, {no-good}, {sorry}]
    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" [syn: {blue},
       {dark}, {dingy}, {disconsolate}, {dismal}, {gloomy}, {grim},
       {sorry}, {drab}, {drear}, {dreary}]
    

Sorry \Sor"ry\, a. [Compar. {Sorrier}; superl. {Sorriest}.] [OE.
   sory, sary, AS. s[=a]rig, fr. s[=a]r, n., sore. See {Sore},
   n. & a. The original sense was, painful; hence, miserable,
   sad.]
   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. "I am sorry for my sins." --Piers Plowman.
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            Ye were made sorry after a godly manner. --2 Cor.
                                                  vii. 9.
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            I am sorry for thee, friend; 't is the duke's
            pleasure.                             --Shak.
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            She entered, were he lief or sorry.   --Spenser.
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   2. Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful. --Spenser.
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            All full of chirking was this sorry place.
                                                  --Chaucer.
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   3. Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse. "With sorry
      grace." --Chaucer.
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            Cheeks of sorry grain will serve.     --Milton.
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            Good fruit will sometimes grow on a sorry tree.
                                                  --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   Syn: Hurt; afflicted; mortified; vexed; chagrined;
        melancholy; dismal; poor; mean; pitiful.
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119 Moby Thesaurus words for "sorry":
      abject, apologetic, ashamed, bad, base, base-minded, beggarly,
      beneath contempt, beneath one, cheap, cheerless, cheesy, common,
      compunctious, conscience-smitten, conscience-stricken,
      contemptible, contrite, crummy, debasing, degrading, demeaning,
      deplorable, depressing, despicable, discontented, disgraceful,
      dismal, full of remorse, gaudy, gimcracky, grim, gutter,
      heavyhearted, humiliating, humiliative, humorless, ignoble,
      ill-starred, in bad humor, inadequate, infestive, infra dig,
      infra indignitatem, joyless, low, low-minded, mean, melancholy,
      meretricious, mirthless, miserable, opprobrious, out of humor,
      out of sorts, outrageous, paltry, pathetic, penitent, penitential,
      pitiable, pitiful, pleasureless, poor, regretful, remorseful,
      repentant, repining, rubbishy, rueful, sad, saddened, scandalous,
      scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, self-accusing,
      self-condemning, self-convicting, self-debasing, self-flagellating,
      self-humiliating, self-punishing, self-reproaching, shabby,
      shamefaced, shamefast, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sordid,
      sorrowful, sorryish, star-crossed, stark, too bad, trashy,
      trifling, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny,
      twopenny-halfpenny, unbecoming, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy,
      unhappy about, unjoyful, unmirthful, unsmiling, unworthy of one,
      valueless, vile, wistful, worthless, wretched