Associations to the word «Sorry»
Wiktionary
SORRY, adjective. (of a person) Regretful for an action; grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
SORRY, adjective. Poor, sad or regrettable.
SORRY, interjection. Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow.
SORRY, interjection. Used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly.
SORRY, noun. The act of saying sorry; an apology.
SORRY DAY, noun. An annual event held in Australia on 26 May, since 1997, to commemorate the mistreatment of the continent's indigenous population.
Dictionary definition
SORRY, 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"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase".
SORRY, adjective. Bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs".
SORRY, adjective. 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".
SORRY, adjective. Causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather".
Wise words
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe.
Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with
things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.