sorry

Betekenis (English)

Adj

1. Regretful or apologetic for one's actions.
2. Grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
3. Poor, pitifully sad or regrettable.
4. Pathetic; contemptibly inadequate.

Intj

1. Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow.
2. Used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly.
3. Used to correct oneself in speech.
4. Said as a request to pass somebody.

Noun

The act of saying sorry; an apology.

Verb

To feel sorry (for someone).

Synonyms

regret

sad

☹️

excuse me

regretful

remorseful

sorrowful

miserable

apologetic

pitiful

penitent

contrite

ashamed

unhappy

☹️

disconsolate

deplorable

repent

repentant

pardon me

dark

bad

👎

abject

anxious

blue

dingy

dismal

distressing

doleful

drab

drear

dreary

gloomy

good-for-nothing

grieved

grim

guilty

lamentable

melancholy

meritless

no-account

no-good

oops

piteous

pitiable

regrettable

remorse

rueful

sympathetic

woeful

wretched

be sad

good-for-naught

I’m sorry

no-count

it is a pity

joyless

woebegone

lamenting

lousy

uh-oh

worthless

dejected

mournful

I mean

I regret that

feel remorse

paltry

pardon

crestfallen

pathetic

contemptible

forgive me

I am sorry

conscience-stricken

pity

pitying

poor

poor thing

punk

be sorry

beggarly

say what

regretting

O dear

be

baleful

apology

repents

ropey

ruthful

apologies

scrub

scrubby

scurvy

seedy

shabby

sheepish

shoddy

dicky

difficult

sordid

discomposed

dickey

disgraceful

alibi

stinky

take heart

downhearted

too bad

trashy

trifling

evil

despicable

execrable

feel

feel sorry for

forlorn

unfortunate

afflicted

grief-stricken

grieve

what

grievous

wicked

woe

haggard

hangdog

infelicitous

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈsɒ.ɹi/

Etimologie (English)

Inherited from Middle English: sory

Inherited from Old English: sāriġ

Cognate with Skots: sairie

Cognate with Saterfriesisch: seerich

Cognate with Fries: searich

Cognate with Nederduits: serig

Cognate with Duits: -

In summary

From Middle English sory, from Old English sāriġ (“feeling or expressing grief, sorry, grieved, sorrowful, sad, mournful, bitter”), from Proto-West Germanic *sairag, from Proto-Germanic *sairagaz (“sad”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂yro (“hard, rough, painful”). Cognate with Scots sairie (“sad, grieved”), Saterland Frisian seerich (“sore, inflamed”), West Frisian searich (“sad, sorry”), Low German serig (“sick, scabby”), German dialectal sehrig (“sore, sad, painful”), Swedish sårig. Despite the similarity in form and meaning, not related to sorrow. Equivalent to sore + -y.