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

1. adjective. 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.
2. adjective. Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.
3. adjective. Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse.
4. adjective. causing dejection

   "a blue day"

   "the dark days of the war"

   Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim

5. adjective. bad; unfortunate

   "my finances were in a deplorable state"

   "a lamentable decision"

   Synonyms: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad

6. adjective. 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"

   Synonyms: bad, regretful

7. adjective. without merit

   "a sorry horse"

   "a sorry excuse"

   Synonyms: meritless

Synonyms

blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, bad, regretful, meritless

Common word forms

sorrier, sorrily, sorriest

Words from these letters

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