Dictionary Entry
sorry
sorry is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 7 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
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.
- 2adjective
Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.
- 3adjective
Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse.
- 4adjective
causing dejection
"a blue day"
"the dark days of the war"
- 5adjective
bad; unfortunate
"my finances were in a deplorable state"
"a lamentable decision"
- 6adjective
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"
- 7adjective
without merit
"a sorry horse"
"a sorry excuse"
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