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[ adjective ] keenly sorry or regretful
Synonyms Examples "felt bad about letting the team down" "was sorry that she had treated him so badly" "felt bad about breaking the vase" |
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[ adjective ] having regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
Synonyms Examples "felt regretful over his vanished youth" "regretful over mistakes she had made" |
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[ adjective ] feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
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[ adjective ] feeling or expressing sorrow or pity
Synonyms Examples "a pitying observer threw his coat around her shoulders" "let him perish without a pitying thought of ours wasted upon him"- Thomas De Quincey |
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[ adjective ] bad; unfortunate
Synonyms Examples "my finances were in a deplorable state" "a lamentable decision" "her clothes were in sad shape" "a sorry state of affairs" |
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[ adjective ] depressing in character or appearance
Examples "drove through dingy streets" "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens "drab old buildings" "a dreary mining town" "gloomy tenements" "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams |
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[ adjective ] without merit
Examples "a sorry horse" "a sorry excuse" "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick" "the car was a no-good piece of junk" |
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[ adjective ] without merit
Examples "a sorry horse" "a sorry excuse" "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick" "the car was a no-good piece of junk" |
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