sorry

Meaning

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. Said as a request to excuse one's unintentional behaviors.
3. Said as a request to pass somebody.
4. Used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly.
5. Used to correct oneself in speech.
6. Used as a hedge.

Noun

The act of saying sorry; an apology.

Verb

To feel sorry (for someone).

Synonyms

sad

☹️

regret

excuse me

regretful

remorseful

sorrowful

miserable

apologetic

disconsolate

unhappy

☹️

contrite

ashamed

penitent

pitiful

repentant

deplorable

repent

dark

bad

👎

pardon me

dismal

sympathetic

woeful

rueful

dingy

guilty

grim

blue

remorse

distressing

wretched

pitiable

good-for-nothing

piteous

gloomy

no-good

oops

meritless

dreary

melancholy

drear

drab

doleful

abject

anxious

grieved

lamentable

no-account

regrettable

be sad

Translations

Entschuldigung

désolé

traurig

☹️

spiacente

excusez-moi

Verzeihung

desculpa

scusa

pardon

mi scusi

mi scuso

triste

☹️

excuse-moi

scusi

es tut mir Leid

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɒ.ɹi/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: sory

Inherited from Old English: sāriġ

Cognate with Scots: sairie

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: seerich

Cognate with Western Frisian: searich

Cognate with Low German: serig

Cognate with German: -

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. By surface analysis, sor(e) + -y. Unrelated to sorrow despite the similarity in form and meaning.