sorry

adj 1: keenly sorry or regretful; "felt bad about letting the team

down"; "was sorry that she had treated him so badly";

"felt bad about breaking the vase" [syn: {bad}]

2: feeling or expressing sorrow or pity; "a pitying observer

threw his coat around her shoulders"; "let him perish

without a pitying thought of ours wasted upon him"- Thomas

De Quincey [syn: {pitying}, {sorry for(p)}]

3: having 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" [syn: {regretful}]

[ant: {unregretful}]

4: feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses

[syn: {contrite}, {remorseful}, {rueful}]

5: very bad; "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}]

6: depressing in character or appearance; "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 [syn: {dingy}, {dismal}, {drab}, {drear},

{dreary}, {gloomy}]

7: 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}]