sorry
English
Etymology
From Middle English sory, from Old English sāriġ (“feeling or expressing grief, sorry, grieved, sorrowful, sad, mournful, bitter”), from Proto-Germanic *sairagaz (“sad”), from Proto-Indo-European *sayǝw- (“hard, rough, painful”), equivalent to sore + -y. Cognate with Scots sairie (“sad, grieved”), West Frisian searich (“sad, sorry”), Low German serig (“sick, scabby”), German dialectal sehrig (“sore, sad, painful”), Swedish sårig. More at sore.
Pronunciation
Adjective
sorry (comparative sorrier, superlative sorriest)
- (of a person) Regretful for an action; grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
- I am sorry I stepped on your toes. It was an accident.
- I am sorry to hear of your uncle's death.
- Poor, sad or regrettable.
- The storm left his garden in a sorry state.
- Pathetic and inferior to the point of causing others disgust.
- Bob is a sorry excuse for a football player.
Synonyms
- (regretful for an action or grieved): apologetic, attritional, compunctious, contrite, heavyhearted, melancholy, mournful, penitent, penitential, regretful, remorseful, repentant, sad, unhappy
Derived terms
Translations
regretful for an action or grieved
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poor, regrettable
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Interjection
sorry
- Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow.
- Sorry! I didn't see that you were on the phone.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- Sorry about yesterday. - No worries.
Audio (US) (file)
- Sorry about yesterday. - No worries.
- Used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly.
- Sorry? What was that? The phone cut out.
- Used to correct oneself in speech.
- There are four — sorry, five — branches of the store locally.
Synonyms
- (request to repeat): I beg your pardon?, I'm sorry?, say again, come again, excuse me? (US), what, huh, say what
Translations
expression of regret or sorrow
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request to repeat
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Noun
sorry (plural sorries or sorrys)
- The act of saying sorry; an apology.
- 2007, Christopher Levan, Give Us This Day: Lenten Reflections on Baking Bread and Discipleship (page 107)
- The British would do it standing stock still, Latinos would dance their sorries, and Canadians would find a way to apologize on ice.
- 2008, Lucy S. Danziger, Self Magazine's 15 Minutes to Your Best Self
- So learn how to tailor your sorries to the sexes. Women tend to want an acknowledgment of what they're going through...
- 2007, Christopher Levan, Give Us This Day: Lenten Reflections on Baking Bread and Discipleship (page 107)
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Further reading
- sorry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- sorry in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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Interjection
sorry
- sorry (expressing regret)
- Je hebt me heel erg pijn gedaan toen je dat zei. — Sorry, dat is nooit mijn bedoeling geweest.
- You really hurt me a lot when you said that. — Sorry, that was never my intention.
- Je hebt me heel erg pijn gedaan toen je dat zei. — Sorry, dat is nooit mijn bedoeling geweest.
- sorry, pardon, excuse me
- Je stond op mijn voet! — Oh, sorry!
- You were standing on my foot! — Oh, sorry!
- Je stond op mijn voet! — Oh, sorry!
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