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Synonyms for "sorry" in English

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sorry:
- sorry; sad; sorrowful; plaintive; woeful; pitiful; deplorable; lamentable; distressing; bad; regretful; good-for-nothing; meritless; no-good; no-account; good-for-naught; no-count

English

Detailed Synonyms for sorry in English

sorry:

sorry adj

sorry
sorry
- sorry adj
sorry
sad; sorrowful; plaintive; woeful; sorry
- sad adj
- sorrowful adj
- plaintive adj
- woeful adj
- sorry adj
sorry

– bad; unfortunate ¹
sad; sorry; pitiful; deplorable; lamentable; distressing
– bad; unfortunate ¹
- sad adj
  - her clothes were in sad shape¹
- sorry adj
  - a sorry state of affairs¹
- pitiful adj
- deplorable adj
  - my finances were in a deplorable state¹
- lamentable adj
  - a lamentable decision¹
- distressing adj
sorry

– feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone ¹
bad; sorry; regretful
– feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone ¹
- bad adj
  - he felt bad about breaking the vase¹
- sorry adj
- regretful adj
  - felt regretful over his vanished youth¹
  - regretful over mistakes she had made¹
sorry

– without merit ¹
sorry; good-for-nothing; meritless; no-good; no-account; good-for-naught; no-count
– without merit ¹
- sorry adj
  - a sorry horse¹
  - a sorry excuse¹
- good-for-nothing adj
  - a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick¹
- meritless adj
- no-good adj
  - the car was a no-good piece of junk¹
- no-account adj
- good-for-naught adj
- no-count adj
  - a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick¹

Related Words for "sorry":

sorriness, sorrier, sorriest

Alternate Synonyms for "sorry":

pitying; compassionate
regretful; bad; penitent; repentant
deplorable; distressing; lamentable; pitiful; sad; bad
blue; dark; depressing; dingy; disconsolate; dismal; dispiriting; gloomy; grim; drab; drear; dreary; cheerless; uncheerful
good-for-nothing; good-for-naught; meritless; no-account; no-count; no-good; worthless

Antonyms for "sorry":

unregretful

Related Definitions for "sorry":

bad; unfortunate¹
- a sorry state of affairs¹
feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone¹
without merit¹
- a sorry horse¹
- a sorry excuse¹

Related Synonyms for sorry

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