Synonyms for sorry
ˈsɒr i, ˈsɔr isor·ry

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1. sorryadjective

   Synonyms:
   heavyhearted, compunctious, regretful, mournful, apologetic, sad, unhappy, remorseful, penitent, penitential, attritional, repentant, contrite, melancholy

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1. sorry

   Synonyms:
   grieved, pained, hurt, afflicted, woe-begone, doleful, downhearted, mortified, vexed, dejected, poor, mean, vile, shabby, worthless

   Antonyms:
   glad, rejoiced, delighted, pleased, gratified, fine, choice, handsome

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1. regretful, sorry, badadjective

   feeling or expressing 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"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase"

   Synonyms:
   speculative, deplorable, big, no-account, dismal, dark, disconsolate, uncollectible, no-count, good-for-nothing, regretful, blue, tough, no-good, unfit, high-risk, grim, sad, risky, good-for-naught, lamentable, unsound, spoilt, distressing, bad, spoiled, forged, pitiful, gloomy, drab, dingy, dreary, defective, drear, meritless

   Antonyms:
   cheerful, valuable, good

2. deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorryadjective

   bad; unfortunate

   "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"

   Synonyms:
   regretful, deplorable, hapless, no-account, reprehensible, woeful, dismal, troubling, execrable, dingy, disconsolate, perturbing, no-count, good-for-nothing, miserable, worrying, criminal, no-good, vicious, disturbing, dark, grim, sad, piteous, condemnable, lamentable, worrisome, misfortunate, pitiable, distressing, bad, poor, pathetic, wretched, pitiful, gloomy, drab, distressful, dreary, drear, good-for-naught, blue, meritless

   Antonyms:
   cheerful, valuable, good

3. good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorryadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   grim, dreary, regretful, gloomy, good-for-nothing, dingy, drear, bad, good-for-naught, pitiful, rubber, blue, lamentable, deplorable, dark, dismal, drab, meritless, no-account, no-count, distressing, no-good, sad, disconsolate

   Antonyms:
   valuable, cheerful, good

4. blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, drearyadjective

   causing dejection

   "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

   Synonyms:
   black, blueish, non-white, gloomful, stern, unappeasable, ghastly, moody, forbidding, relentless, dingy, raunchy, bluish, mordant, risque, gruesome, depressed, dirty, gamey, down in the mouth, low, sinister, olive-drab, lamentable, muddied, unrelenting, sullen, juicy, sulky, bad, gloomy, meritless, low-spirited, saturnine, good-for-naught, dispirited, gamy, down(p), grisly, good-for-nothing, dark, naughty, unconsolable, benighted, sad, muddy, sober, gentle, grubby, grungy, dark-skinned, aristocratic, inconsolable, racy, regretful, somber, spicy, blue-blooded, blue, puritanical, no-count, drear, macabre, disconsolate, no-account, dreary, grimy, coloured, inexorable, puritanic, aristocratical, no-good, deplorable, glowering, morose, pitiful, patrician, profane, blasphemous, sombre, drab, glum, unforgiving, glooming, sour, blue(a), downcast, downhearted, distressing, dour, obscure, sick, grim, dismal, begrimed

   Antonyms:
   cheerful, good, valuable

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1. sorryadjective

   Synonyms:
   grieved, SORROWFUL

2. sorryadjective

   Synonyms:
   mean, vile, base, poor, miserable, wretched, pitiful, abject, beggarly, rascally, contemptible, despicable, shabby, bad, low, paltry

3. sorryadjective

   Synonyms:
   mournful, dismal, sad, painful, melancholy

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1. sorryadjective

   Synonyms:
   melancholy, mournful, dismal, depressing, sad, abject, despicable, miserable, mean, paltry, contemptible, pitiful, contrite, penitent, chagrined, pained

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1. List of paraphrases for "sorry":

   excuse, -sorry, forgiveness, pardon, sad, s-sorry, apologise, desolated, apology, regrettable, dorry, sorry.

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1. Samuel Johnson:

   Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

2. Cortni Borgerson:

   A shellfish allergy increases the likelihood that you will be allergic to cicada, so it’s better to be safe than sorry and abstain from land arthropods if you can’t eat their sea swimming cousins.

3. Mike Huckabee:

   Leadership is about making decisions with the information you have, not the information people will have 12 years later, i kind of feel sorry for my friend Jeb Bush.

4. Ingmar Guandique:

   I ’m very sorry for what happened to your daughter, but I had nothing to do with it. I am innocent.

5. Carsten Spohr:

   I have worked at Lufthansa as an engineer, I have worked as a pilot at Lufthansa, I have carried responsibility as a manager at Lufthansa for many, many years, always, wherever I was, whoever my boss was, the rule was always safety is No. 1. And that this has happened to us I can only say we are sorry.