ENGLISH: sorry - CREOLE: regrèt



Overview of adj sorry



The adj sorry has 5 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)



1. (3) pitying, sorry -- (feeling or expressing sorrow or pity; "a pitying observer threw his coat around her shoulder")

2. (1) regretful, sorry, bad -- (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")

3. (1) deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry -- (bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs")

4. (1) blue, dark, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary -- (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")

5. good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry -- (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")

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