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Adjective sorry has 7 senses
- bad, sorry - 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"
Antonym: happy (indirect, via unhappy)
- pitying, sorry, sorry for - 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
Antonym: uncompassionate (indirect, via compassionate)
- regretful, sorry - 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"
- contrite, remorseful, rueful, ruthful, sorry - feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
Antonyms: impenitent, unrepentant, unremorseful (indirect, via penitent, repentant)
Antonyms: impenitent, unrepentant, unremorseful (indirect, via penitent, repentant)
- 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"
Antonym: good (indirect, via bad)
- dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry - 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
Antonym: cheerful (indirect, via cheerless)
- 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"
Antonym: valuable (indirect, via worthless)
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