Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sorry"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sorry \Sor"ry\, a. [Compar. {Sorrier}; superl. {Sorriest}.] [OE.
sory, sary, AS. s[=a]rig, fr. s[=a]r, n., sore. See {Sore},
n. & a. The original sense was, painful; hence. miserable,
sad.]
1. 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. ``I am sorry for my sins.'' --Piers
Plowman.
Ye were made sorry after a godly manner. --2 Cor.
vii. 9.
I am sorry for thee, friend; 't is the duke's
pleasure. --Shak.
She entered, were he lief or sorry. --Spenser.
2. Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful. --Spenser.
All full of chirking was this sorry place.
--Chaucer.
3. Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse. ``With sorry
grace.'' --Chaucer.
Cheeks of sorry grain will serve. --Milton.
Good fruit will sometimes grow on a sorry tree.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Syn: Hurt; afflicted; mortified; vexed; chagrined;
melancholy; dismal; poor; mean; pitiful.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}, {ruthful}]
5: bad; unfortunate; "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}]
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