Sorry

Definition: Sorry

Sorry

Adjective

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".

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.

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".

4. Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses.

5. Bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs".

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.

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".

Date "sorry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Sorry \Sor"ry\, adjective. [Comparative Sorrier; superlative Sorriest.]. (references)

Domain	Definition
Slang in 1811	SORRY. Vile, mean, worthless. A sorry fellow, or hussy; a worthless man or woman. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Sorry

Synonyms: bad (adj), contrite (adj), deplorable (adj), dingy (adj), dismal (adj), distressing (adj), drab (adj), drear (adj), dreary (adj), gloomy (adj), good-for-naught (adj), good-for-nothing (adj), lamentable (adj), meritless (adj), no-account (adj), no-count (adj), no-good (adj), pitiful (adj), pitying (adj), regretful (adj), remorseful (adj), rueful (adj), ruthful (adj), sad (adj), sorry for(p) (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: unregretful (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Commonalty	Adjective: ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly; below par; no great shakes; (unimportant); homely, homespun; vulgar, low-minded; snobbish.
Dejection	Affliction; sorry sight; memento mori; damper, wet blanket, Job's comforter.
Disrepute	Play second fiddle; lose caste; pale one's ineffectual fire; recede into the shade; fall from one's high estate; keep in the background; (modesty); be conscious of disgrace; (humility); look blue, look foolish, look like a fool; cut a poor figure, cut a sorry figure; laugh on the wrong side of the mouth; make a sorry face, go away with a flea in. one's ear, slink away.
Failure	Frustrated, crossed, unhinged, disconcerted dashed; thrown off one's balance, thrown on one's back, thrown on one's beam ends; unhorsed, in a sorry plight; hard hit.
Pain	Sorry sight, heavy news, provocation; affront; "head and front of one's offending".
	Concerned, sorry; sorrowing, sorrowful; cut up, chagrined, horrified, horror-stricken; in grief, plunged in grief, a prey to grief; Noun: in tears; (lamenting); steeped to the lips in misery; heart-stricken, heart-broken, heart-scalded; broken-hearted; in despair.
Penitence	Verb: repent, be sorry for; be penitent; Adjective: rue; regret; think better of; recant; knock under; (submit); plead guilty; sing miserere, sing de profundis; cry peccavi; own oneself in the wrong; acknowledge, confess; (disclose); humble oneself; beg pardon; (apologize); turn over a new leaf, put on the new man, turn from sin; reclaim; repent in sackcloth and ashes; (do penance); learn by experience.
Pity	Verb: pity; have pity, show pity, take pity; Noun: commiserate, compassionate; condole; sympathize; feel for, be sorry for, yearn for; weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of.
Pleasure	Adjective: pleased; not sorry; glad, gladsome; pleased as Punch.
Regret	Phrase: 'tis pity, 'tis too true; "sigh'd and look'd and sigh'd again"; "I'm sorry.".
Unimportance	Poor, paltry, pitiful; contemptible; (contempt); sorry, mean, meager, shabby, miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel, weedy, scurvy, putid, beggarly, worthless, twopennyhalfpenny, cheap, trashy, catchpenny, gimcrack, trumpery; one-horse. not worth the pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a straw; Noun: beneath notice, unworthy of notice, beneath regard, unworthy of regard, beneath consideration, unworthy of consideration; de lana caprina; vain; (useless).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Sorry

English words defined with "sorry": affiliation, all in all, altogether, association ♦ bad ♦ deplorable, distressing ♦ fear, Forthink ♦ good-for-naught, good-for-nothing ♦ lamentable ♦ meritless ♦ no-account, no-count, no-good ♦ on the whole ♦ pitiful, poor devil ♦ rattling, real, really, regret, repent, rue ♦ sad, sincerely, Sorrily ♦ tie, tie-up, tout ensemble, truly ♦ unfeignedly ♦ very ♦ wretch. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sorry": Denys ♦ Handkerchief and Sword, Hypocrites' Isle ♦ Ropes ♦ story. (references)

Etymologies containing "sorry": Forthink. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Sorry" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (excuse me), Pidgin English (sorry).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Hello, Sorry about the door, Is the party over (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) Sorry to disapoint you. (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) Sen! I'm sorry I called you a dope beforeI take it back (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi; writing credit: Cindy Davis Hewitt; Donald H. Hewitt) I'll never be sorry. (Dirty Dancing; writing credit: Eleanor Bergstein.) I am sorry that I have brought this upon you, my boy. And I'm sorry thatyou must bear this burden (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)
Lyrics	It's hard for me to say I'm sorry (Hard to Say I'm Sorry; performing artist: Az Yet) I’m glad that you’re sorry now ("Who's Sorry Now"; performing artist: Connie Francis) Sorry girl but you missed out (Sk8er Boi; performing artist: Avril Lavigne) Listen baby I'm sorry (The Call; performing artist: Backstreet Boys) But it'll still be two days till I say I'm sorry (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)
Clever	Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. (references; author: Mark Twain) Sympathy sees and says, "I'm sorry. (references; author: unknown) I am sorry I offended you. I should have lied. (references; author: unknown) My house was clean last week. Sorry you missed it. (references; author: unknown) Welcome To Shit Creek ~ Sorry, We're Out of Paddles! (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	We're Sorry! Please Sir (1972) Sorry I'm Single (1967) Wrong Number Sorry (1948) I'm Sorry (1908) Phileine zegt sorry (2003)
Song Titles	Sorry The Day I Was Married (performing artist: Steeleye Span - Prior/Hart)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Franklin Says Sorry (Franklin TV Storybook, 2) (reference) I Did It, I'm Sorry (Picture Puffins) (reference) I'm Sorry You Have to Be Here (reference) I'm Sorry, Almira Ann (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Sister, I'm Sorry (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	I'm Sorry I'm Leaving [EP] (reference) It's a Sorry World (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Sorry (reference) Sorry! (Jewel Case) (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Better safe than sorry : it's a matter of life or death. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		I'm sorry a son of mine, she said with dignity, had to be told how to act with his mother. Credit: Library of Congress.
	I am sorry he said, beaming shamelessly, the will is found. Credit: Library of Congress.		I'm sorry! it's really not like this every day. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Sorry that happened just at this time : hope you're not hurt!. Credit: Library of Congress.		Sorry, son, it's time you learned to fly on your own!. Credit: Library of Congress.
	If dreams came true. The dog-catcher could be sorry if he monkeyed with Willie's new pup. Credit: Library of Congress.		"Sorry, Adolf, it's no better here!". Credit: Library of Congress.
	Two cartoons: one showing clerk saying, "I am very sorry, but my orders are ...", and tourist saying, "Yesh, yesh, I know all about your orders; but how voz it dot you knowed i wozn't a Ghristian?" ; the other An Oirish opinion, showing Irish woman saying. Credit: Library of Congress.		Son Chan Valley, Vietnam : I'm sorry sir, but my men refuse to go -- we cannot move out. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Henny Youngman	If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
Henry Ward Beecher	Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Martin Luther	Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Richard L. Evans	Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.
Samuel Johnson	I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.
William M. Thackeray	Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Communist Manifesto	1848	The robe of speculative cobwebs, embroidered with flowers of rhetoric, steeped in the dew of sickly sentiment, this transcendental robe in which the German Socialists wrapped their sorry "eternal truths," all skin and bone, served to wonderfully increase the sale of their goods amongst such a public. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	She was not sorry.
Through the Looking-Glass	Carroll, Lewis	Alice was sorry for this, as she wanted to hear the news too.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	Sorry, did I say something wrong
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	I am sorry for it, but that man is Jean Valjean
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	Sorry because he was afraid
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	Sorry I am my noble cousin should Suspect me that I mean no good to him.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Ya like to feel sorry for yaself
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	I made the Captain a very low bow, and then turning to the Dutchman, said, I was sorry to find more mercy in a heathen, than in a brother Christian
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Kenya	However, the lack of maintenance has caused deterioration of the road network . The sorry state of the roads is largely due to inadequate allocations to road maintenance and to substandard work done by contractors in collusion with government officials. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, The Biography of a Dead Cow, is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship. Yet in reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century. Do you think that fair criticism?" "I am very sorry, sir," replied the critic, amiably, "but it did not occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it." Mr. W.C. Morrow, who used to live in San Jose, California, was addicted to writing ghost stories which made the reader feel as if a stream of lizards, fresh from the ice, were streaking it up his back and hiding in his hair. San Jose was at that time believed to be haunted by the visible spirit of a noted bandit named Vasquez, who had been hanged there. The town was not very well lighted, and it is putting it mildly to say that San Jose was reluctant to be out o' nights. One particularly dark night two gentlemen were abroad in the loneliest spot within the city limits, talking loudly to keep up their courage, when they came upon Mr. J.J. Owen, a well-known journalist. "Why, Owen," said one, "what brings you here on such a night as this? You told me that this is one of Vasquez' favorite haunts! And you are a believer. Aren't you afraid to be out?" "My dear fellow," the journalist replied with a drear autumnal cadence in his speech, like the moan of a leaf-laden wind, "I am afraid to be in. I have one of Will Morrow's stories in my pocket and I don't dare to go where there is light enough to read it." Rear-Admiral Schley and Representative Charles F. Joy were standing near the Peace Monument, in Washington, discussing the question, Is success a failure? Mr. Joy suddenly broke off in the middle of an eloquent sentence, exclaiming: "Hello! I've heard that band before. Santlemann's, I think." "I don't hear any band," said Schley. "Come to think, I don't either," said Joy; "but I see General Miles coming down the avenue, and that pageant always affects me in the same way as a brass band. One has to scrutinize one's impressions pretty closely, or one will mistake their origin." While the Admiral was digesting this hasty meal of philosophy General Miles passed in review, a spectacle of impressive dignity. When the tail of the seeming procession had passed and the two observers had recovered from the transient blindness caused by its effulgence -- "He seems to be enjoying himself," said the Admiral. "There is nothing," assented Joy, thoughtfully, "that he enjoys one-half so well." The illustrious statesman, Champ Clark, once lived about a mile from the village of Jebigue, in Missouri. One day he rode into town on a favorite mule, and, hitching the beast on the sunny side of a street, in front of a saloon, he went inside in his character of teetotaler, to apprise the barkeeper that wine is a mocker. It was a dreadfully hot day. Pretty soon a neighbor came in and seeing Clark, said: "Champ, it is not right to leave that mule out there in the sun. He'll roast, sure! -- he was smoking as I passed him." "O, he's all right," said Clark, lightly; "he's an inveterate smoker." The neighbor took a lemonade, but shook his head and repeated that it was not right. He was a conspirator. There had been a fire the night before: a stable just around the corner had burned and a number of horses had put on their immortality, among them a young colt, which was roasted to a rich nut-brown. Some of the boys had turned Mr. Clark's mule loose and substituted the mortal part of the colt. Presently another man entered the saloon. "For mercy's sake!" he said, taking it with sugar, "do remove that mule, barkeeper: it smells." "Yes," interposed Clark, "that animal has the best nose in Missouri. But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't." In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger. The boys idd not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much of his political preferment, went away. But walking home late that night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the misty moonlight. Mentioning the name of Helen Blazes with uncommon emphasis, Mr. Clark took the back track as hard as ever he could hook it, and passed the night in town. General H.H. Wotherspoon, president of the Army War College, has a pet rib-nosed baboon, an animal of uncommon intelligence but imperfectly beautiful. Returning to his apartment one evening, the General was surprised and pained to find Adam (for so the creature is named, the general being a Darwinian) sitting up for him and wearing his master's best uniform coat, epaulettes and all. "You confounded remote ancestor!" thundered the great strategist, "what do you mean by being out of bed after naps? -- and with my coat on!" Adam rose and with a reproachful look got down on all fours in the manner of his kind and, scuffling across the room to a table, returned with a visiting-card: General Barry had called and, judging by an empty champagne bottle and several cigar-stumps, had been hospitably entertained while waiting. The general apologized to his faithful progenitor and retired. The next day he met General Barry, who said: "Spoon, old man, when leaving you last evening I forgot to ask you about those excellent cigars. Where did you get them?" General Wotherspoon did not deign to reply, but walked away. "Pardon me, please," said Barry, moving after him; "I was joking of course. Why, I knew it was not you before I had been in the room fifteen minutes."
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Andy Rooney	The rest of our country has been great to New York since the attack. New Yorkers are being consoled, felt sorry for, sympathized with, even loved.
Bob Jones	You know I did. Let me tell you why I did. I'm sorry I did. We've all said things we wish we hadn't said.
Dominick Dunne	I think he can get a fair trial. I think you can always get a fair trial. I think he's going to have a hard time. I don't have the least bit of sympathy for the guy, I'm sorry. And it's going to be fascinating to watch that trial.
Madonna	Don't read the newspapers. Don't read magazines, and don't watch TV, sorry. I'll watch this interview though.
Paul Harvey	So I put that in my pocket and went on about my own willful ways, and it was very tardy in my own life, I'm sorry to say.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Madison	1809-1817	I am sorry to be accessary to the loss of a single moment of time by the house.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Sorry" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sorry" is used about 11,423 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	11,423	813

Expressions using "sorry": be awfully sorry ♦ be in a sorry pickle ♦ be in a sorry plight ♦ be in a sorry state ♦ be sorry ♦ be sorry for ♦ be sorry for smb. ♦ be sorry that ♦ be sorry to ♦ be sorry to have troubled smb. ♦ better safe than sorry ♦ feel sorry ♦ feel sorry for ♦ feel sorry for oneself ♦ feel sorry for smb. ♦ how very sorry we are that you must go ♦ i am awfully sorry ♦ i am sorry ♦ i am sorry to disturb you ♦ i am sorry to have troubled you ♦ in a sorry plight ♦ it is better to be safe than sorry ♦ make a sorry face ♦ make sorry show ♦ say sorry ♦ sorry effort ♦ sorry excuse ♦ sorry fellow ♦ sorry for ♦ sorry pickle ♦ sorry sight. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "sorry": sorry-and-lost-without-her, sorry-cow, sorry-for-themselves, sorry-looking, sorry-pardon.
	Ending with "sorry": s-sorry.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "sorry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		jammer (alas, regrettably, unfortunately). (various references)

Albanian		për t'i ardhur keq (deplorable, pitiful), i pikëlluar (afflicted, distressed, distressful, dolorous, gaunt, glum, heartsick, mournful, rueful, sad, sorrowful, woeful, woesome), i mjerë (abject, crummy, desolate, dismal, forlorn, ill fated, ill-starred, infelicitous, lowlife, miserable, paltry, penurious, pimping, piteous, unhappy, unlucky, worm), i hidhëruar (bitter, dejected, disappointed, distressed, distressful, doleful, sorrowful), i brengosur (chill, dejected, depressed, despondent, doleful, grievous, sad, unhappy). (various references)

Arabic		آسف (regretful), ‏متأسف (afraid), ‏مؤسف (lamentable, regrettable, sad), ‏مثير للشفقة (pathetic, pitchy, woeful), ‏حزين (afflicted, cheerless, dejected, depressed, doleful, dolorous, downcast, drear, dreary, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholic, miserable, mournful, pathetic, plaintive, rueful, sad, sore, sorrowful, sullen, unhappy, wailful, weary, wistful, woeful), ‏أسف (be sorry, grief, grieve, pity, plead guilty, regret, regretful, repent, repentance, rue, sorrow), ‏آسف (regretful, repentant), ‏رثى له (pitiable, pitiful, pity, puny, rueful, ruefully, saddening, woeful). (various references)

Basque		sentitzen (be sorry). (various references)

Breton		mantret. (various references)

Bulgarian		съжаляващ, съжалявам (be sorry for, pity, regret, repent, rue), каещ се, жалък (abject, lamentable, mangy, miserable, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, pokey, poor, sad, scabbed, scabby, scaly, scrubby, sorrowful, squalid, woeful), лош (bad, chronic, cobbler, evil, fie-fie, foul, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, inferior, loose, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malign, mean, miscreant, miserable, nasty, naughty, poor, rough, rugged, severe, shoddy, sinister, thumping, ugly, vicious, wicked, wrong), безсмислен (absurd, aimless, futile, inane, insensate, inutile, meaningless, mindless, needless, nonsense, nonsensical, pointless, preposterous, purposeless, senseless, stupid, tomfool, unmeaning, vacuous, vain), безполезен (baubling, bootless, fruitless, futile, ineffective, inutile, naught, needless, no good, nugatory, otiose, pointless, superfluous, trashy, unavailing, unhelpful, up the spout, useless, vain, void, worthless), противен (abhorrent, abominable, adverse, bastard, contrary, cross, disagreeable, foul, fulsome, ghastly, gross, horrid, loud, mucky, nameless, nasty, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, opposing, pestilential, rebarbative, repugnant, repulsive, scarlet, sickening, sickly, sour, squalid, swinish, ugly, unattractive, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, vexatious, vile, villainous), извинете (excuse me, pardon me). (various references)

Catalan		perdoni. (various references)

Chinese		遺憾 (pity, regret), 抱歉. (various references)

Croatian		žao. (various references)

Czech		zoufalý (agonized, despairing, desperate, forlorn, hopeless), zarmoucený (distressed, sorrowful), promiòte (beg your pardon, excuse, excuse me, pardon me), pardon (excuse me, pardon me), litující (remorseful). (various references)

Danish		beklage (be sorry about, mourn, regret). (various references)

Dutch		spýt hebben van (be sorry about, regret), obligatie uitgegeven door de overheid (bond, sorry bond), betreuren (be sorry about, begrudge, mourn, regret), berouw hebben van (feel sorry for, regret, repent, repent of), bejammeren (be sorry about, begrudge, mourn, regret). (various references)

Esperanto		penti pri (feel sorry for, regret, repent, repent of), bedaŭri (be sorry about, regret). (various references)

Faeroese		harma (be sorry about, regret). (various references)

Farsi		متاسف (Afraid), متاثر (Dull, Regretful), ناجور (Away, Cockeyed, Disparate, Dissimilar, Dissonant, Heterogeneous, Inapplicable, Inappropriate, Inconsistent, Incorrect, Inept, Misfit, Piebald, Uneven), غمگین (Dyspeptic, Heartsick, Melancholy, Sad, Woeful), بدبخت (Gray, Infelicitous, Miserable, Unblessed, Unblest, Unfortunate, Unhappy, Woeful, Wretch, Wretched). (various references)

Finnish		mitenkä (I beg your pardon?, what did you say?), anteeksi (en kuullut, että vaivasin, excuse me, I beg your pardon, pardon, sorry to have bothered you). (various references)

French		triste (sorrowful), piteux, peiné (sorrowful), pardon, moche, je suis désolé, excusez-moi, excuse, désolée (very sorry), désolé (very sorry). (various references)

French Canadian		désolé. (various references)

Galician		síntoo (be sorry). (various references)

German		traurig (baleful, balefully, blue, cheerless, dismal, doleful, funereal, gaunt, lugubrious, lugubriously, miserable, mournful, mournfully, notorious, pathetic, plaintively, sad, sadly, sorrowful, sorrowfully, unhappy, upsetting), Entschuldigung (apology, excuse, excuse me, pardon, pardon me), verzeihung (absolution, forgiveness, pardon, pardon me), leid (affliction, agony, grief, harm, misfortune, pain, sorrow, woe). (various references)

Greek		συγγνώμη (excuse me, pardon), συγνώμη (absolution, apologies, apology, regret), περίλυποσ (joyless, regretful, sorrowful), ελεεινόσ (abject, beggarly, deplorable, disgraceful, forlorn, haggard, miserable, piteous, pitiable, scrub, scrubby, seedy, wretched), λυπηρόσ (baleful, doleful, grievous, mournful, regrettable, sad, sorrowful), λυπημένοσ (sad). (various references)

Guarani		añembyasyete (I feel very sorry). (various references)

Hebrew		מתחרט, מעציב (depressing, dolorous, melancholy, sad, saddening, woeful), מצטער (sorrowful), מצר (defile, depressed, fix, gut, narrow pass, neck, orifice, straitness, straits, stricture). (various references)

Hungarian		siralmas (abject, deplorable, lamentable, lugubrious, mournful, piteous, pitiable, woeful), sajnos (alas, it is to be regretted that, sorry to say, unfortunately), sajnálom (I am sorry, sg has come up), sajnálat (regret, rue), vmi közbejött (sg has come up), bús (blue, dejected, disconsolate, dolorous, gloomy, sad, sullen, trist, tristful), bánatos (pained, rueful, sad, sorrowful, trist, unhappy, woebegone, woeful, woesome). (various references)

Icelandic		leitt. (various references)

Indonesian		menyesal (regret), maaf (mercy, pardon). (various references)

Italian		scusa (alibi, apology, excuse, excuse me, pardon, plea, pretence, pretense, subterfuge). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		済まない , 済みません (excuse me). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		すまない, すみません (excuse me). (various references)

Korean		유감스러운. (various references)

Manx		moal (backward, belated, decrepit, deliberate, deplorable, dim, disappointing, dull, enfeebled, feeble, flimsy, gradual, ill, laggard, late, late of fruit, listless, meagre, overdue, pithless, poor, poorly, scraggy, slack, slow, tardy, tawdry, unimpressive, weak, weak as faith, wretched, wretched of thing), groamagh (bad-tempered, bearish, bleak, bleak of weather, cheerless, crestfallen, dejected, depressive, disagreeable, dour, forbidding, gloomy, glum, grim, gruff, mopish, morose, prospects, prospects), saturnine, sombre, stern, sullen, surly), arryssagh (penitent, regretful). (various references)

Norwegian		beklager (am sorry). (various references)

Papiamen		lamentá (be sorry about, regret), deplorá (be sorry about, regret). (various references)

Pidgin English		sorry. (various references)

Pig Latin		orrysay.(various references)

Portuguese		triste (bleak, blue, broken-hearted, cheerless, dark, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dreary, dumpish, dumpy, gaunt, gloomily, gray, grey, joyless, lonesome, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, misty, moody, mopish, mourning, pained, painful, pensive, piteous, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sore, sorrowful, tearful, tristful, unhappy, upset), pesaroso (chapfallen, mournful, mourning, pained, preoccupated, regretful, rueful, sad, sore, sorrowful), penalizado (sore), desolado (bereaved, bereft, desolate, devastated, gaunt, lorn, mourning, waste, woebegone), desgostoso (discontented, disgustful, disgusting, dissatisfied), desanimado (broken-down, cheerless, crestfallen, damp, depressed, despondent, dispirited, down, downcast, down-hearted, hagridden, heavy-laden, hopeless, languid, low, low-spirited, out of gas, out of heart), contrito (contrite, repentant), arrependido (chapfallen, compunctious, contrite, regretful, repentant, rueful). (various references)

Romanian		slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), scuzaţi-mã (I am sorry, I apologize, I beg your pardon), sãrãcãcios (baldly, barely, barren, humble, mean, meanly, miserable, modest, penurious, poky, poor, poorly, poverty stricken, scant, shabby, slender, sparing), regret (regret, set back), prost (ass, bad, badly, beef-witted, blinkard, blockhead, blunt, booby, calf, cheap, clumsy, cock eyed, common, dead, dolt, doltish, donkey, dull, dullard, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, flat, fool, foolish, good for nothing, goof, goon, goose, Goosey, gull, harmful, idiot, idiotish, inhospitable, lousy, lubber-head, miserable, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, numskulled, oaf, oafish, pin head, poor, poorly, silly, simple, simpleton, snipe, soft, soft-headed, spoony, stupid, thoughtless, unfavorable, unfavourable, wretched, zombie), pardon (excuse me, I am sorry, I beg your pardon, pardon), neplãcut (acrid, annoying, bad, beastly, bothersome, brackish, dark, disagreeable, dreadful, forbidding, hard, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, nasty, niggling, objectionable, obnoxious, obnoxiously, offensive, offensively, provoking, snuffy, ugly, unlucky, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unwelcome), necãjit (angry, depressed, downcast, long-faced, peeved, tormented, worried), mizer (beggarly, miserable, squalid), mâhnit (pained, sad), jalnic (beggarly, deplorable, distressing, doleful, forlorn, heart rending, lamentable, lamentably, lamenting, mangy, mean, miserable, miserably, mournful, pathetic, pathetically, piteous, pitiable, plaintive, rueful, ruefully, sad, sorrowful, squalid, woeful, wretched), cer iertare (I am sorry), amãrât (downcast, down-hearted, embittered, long-faced, mumper, poor man, sadly, unhappy, wretch), întristat (despondent, downcast, grieved, sad), întristãtor (melancholy, sad, saddening, sickening, woeful). (various references)

Russian		сожалеющий, огорченный (afflicted, chagrined, disappointed, pained), несчастный (desolate, disconsolate, hapless, hard, infelicitous, lack-all, lorn, miserable, pitiable, poor, star-crossed, unblessed, unfortunate, unhappy, woeful, wretch, wretched), печальный (comfortless, deplorable, disappointing, disconsolate, dolorous, heavyhearted, heavy-hearted, lachrymose, lamentable, languishing, lugubrious, miserable, mournful, pensive, sad, sorrowful, tearful, tristful, wailful). (various references)

Scottish		duilich (difficult). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		žao. (various references)

Slovene		žal. (various references)

Somali		xumahay. (various references)

Spanish		afligido (afflicted, aggrieved, bereaved, bleak, desolate, dismal, distressed, dreary, gaunt, miserable, mournful, pained, sad, somber, sorrowful, stricken, sullen, troubled). (various references)

Swahili		nasikitika (I am sorry). (various references)

Swedish		ledsen (dismal, dumpish, gaunt, miserable, sad, sorrowful, upset). (various references)

Tagalog		sori, ikinalulungkot. (various references)

Thai		น่าสงสาร (ruthful), ที่ขอโทษ, ขอโทษ (apologise, apologize). (various references)

Tswana		botlhoko. (various references)

Turkish		sudan (flimsy, slight, Sudan, sudanese, thin, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying, watery), saçma (absurd, applesauce, balls, baloney, blind, boloney, bunk, bunkum, chimerical, claptrap, cockeyed, dissemination, eradiation, fantastic, fantastical, farcical, fatuous, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlesticks, foolish, for the birds, froth, frothy, fudge, go on, hog-wash, hooey, impertinent, inane, incongruous, inept, irrational, jabber wocky, kibosh, laugh, malarkey, nonsense, nonsensical, outlandish, paltry, pointless, poppycock, raving, rhubarb, rot, scattering, senseless, shot, shucks, skittles, small shot, smearcase, spinach, stuff, tommyrot, tosh, trash, trifling, tripe, trivial, trumpery, unreasonable, wacky, waffle, whacky), zavallı (nebbish, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, poor thing, poverty stricken, wretched), pişman (contrite, penitent, regretful, remorseful, repentant, rueful), maalesef (I am sorry, unfortunately, unhappily, unluckily, with regret), afedersiniz (excuse me, I am sorry, I beg your pardon, pardon me), afedersin (I am sorry), acınacak halde (deplorable, pathetically, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, wretched), üzgünüm (I am sorry), üzgün (afflicted, aggrieved, bleak, careworn, chagrined, crestfallen, dejected, downcast, downhearted, glum, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, low-spirited, pained, regretful, rueful, sad, sick at heart, sorrowful, stricken, tearful, troubled, unhappy, upset, worried), üzüntülü (distressed, hard pressed, sad, woebegone, worried). (various references)

Turkmen		gaяgyrmak (feel sorry for, pity). (various references)

Ukrainian		що шкодує, вибачте (excuse me), засмучений (aggrieved, chap-fallen, disconcerted, dispirited, downcast, grieved, low-spirited, melancholy, sorrowful, woebegone), жалюгідний (abject, beggarly, caitiff, contemptible, deplorable, forlorn, impoverished, lamentable, mean, miserable, parsimonious, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, queachy, snide, tatty, woeful, woesome, wretched), перепрошую. (various references)

Vietnamese		xấu (baleful, deplorable, evil, ill-favoured, ill-looking, punk, shabby, ugly, unbeautiful, unpleasant, wicked, wrong), thiểu não (woebegone), tồi tàn (drear, dreary, poky, shabby), lấy làm tiếc, lấy làm phiền đáng buồn, lấy làm buồn. (various references)

Welsh		edifar (penitent), chwith (left, sad, strange, wrong). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	dole, doleas, doleat, dolebant, dolebat, dolebit, dolebitis, dolebunt, dolens, dolentes, dolentium, doleo, doleri, doles, dolet, doletis, doluerunt, dolui, doluistis, doluit. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Matthew Chapter 18, Verse 31
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	IdonteV de oi sundouloi autou ta genomena eluphqhsan sfodra kai elqonteV diesafhsan tw kuriw autwn panta ta genomena
Latin	405	Vulgate	Videntes autem conservi eius quae fiebant contristati sunt valde et venerunt et narraverunt domino suo omnia quae facta erant
Old English	990	West Saxon	Ða ge-seagen his efen (sic) þæt. þawæren hyo swiðe ge-unrotsode. and coman& sægden heore hlaforde ealle þa dæden.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And hise euen seruauntis, seynge the thingis that weren don, soreweden greetli. And thei camen, and telden to her lord alle the thingis that weren don.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	When his other felowes sawe what was done they were very sory and came and tolde vnto their lorde all yt had happened.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	So when his fellow-servants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told to their lord all that was done.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	So when the other servants saw what was done they were very sad, and came and gave word to their lord of what had been done.
Source: compiled by the editor from

1	Start a pawn or move a pawn 1 space
2	Start a pawn or move a pawn 2 spaces and draw a card again
3	Move a pawn 3 spaces
4	Move a pawn 4 spaces backwards
5	Move a pawn 5 spaces
7	Move one pawn 7 spaces or split the 7 spaces between two pawns
8	Move a pawn 8 spaces
10	Move a pawn 10 spaces forward or 1 space backwards
11	Move 11 spaces forward or switch pawns with your opponent
12	Move a pawn 12 spaces forward
Sorry!	Move any one of your pawns from START to the square occupied by any opponent's pawn, sending that pawn back to its own START.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
sorry	529	say sorry	31
sorry poem	308	lyrics sorry	30
sorry seems to be the hardest word	171	guarini justin lyrics sorry	29
sorry card	158	hard to say i m sorry	29
i m poem sorry	142	hardest lyrics seems sorry word	29
im poem sorry	128	greeting sorry	25
i m sorry	122	im sorry card	25
sorry very	83	i lyrics m sorry	24
im sorry	64	sorry about dresden	22
sorry e card	57	guarini justin sorry	22
sorry ecard	52	i m say sorry	21
i m sorry card	44	ecard i m sorry	21
flip sorry	43	away chicago get hard i lyrics m say sorry	21
sorry greeting card	41	i m quote sorry	20
letter sorry	41	poem say sorry	20
sorry game	36	i just m man sorry	20
seems sorry	35	love poem sorry	19
quote sorry	33	mama sorry	19
card e i m sorry	33	i m poetry sorry	19
sorry board game	32	im sorry e card	19
		i letter m sorry	19
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.


"Baltimore ship" by JR Goleno Commentary: "This is a boat in the Baltimore harbor, sorry it's a little blurry."	"70s Flashback" by Jennifer W Commentary: "They found some 'wicked cool' 70s stores.... sorry about the quality."
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Sorry

Definition: Sorry

Sorry

Adjective

Specialty Definition: Sorry

Specialty Definition: Sorry

Sorry! (game)

Synonyms: Sorry

Synonyms within Context: Sorry

Commonalty

Dejection

Disrepute

Failure

Pain

Penitence

Pity

Pleasure

Regret

Unimportance

Crosswords: Sorry

Modern Usage: Sorry

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Commercial Usage: Sorry

Books

Theater & Movies

Music

High Tech

Image Slideshow: Sorry

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Photo Album: Sorry

Digital Photo Gallery: Sorry

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Henny Youngman

Henry Ward Beecher

Martin Luther

Richard L. Evans

Samuel Johnson

William M. Thackeray

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Communist Manifesto

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Emma

Austen, Jane

Through the Looking-Glass

Carroll, Lewis

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Non-Fiction Usage: Sorry

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: Sorry

Andy Rooney

Bob Jones

Dominick Dunne

Madonna

Paul Harvey

Speeches: Sorry

James Madison

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