sorry

Meaning

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.

regret

be sad

good-for-naught

I’m sorry

it is a pity

I regret that

feel remorse

forgive me

I am sorry

conscience-stricken

be sorry

O dear

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɒ.ɹi/

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.

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