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. Parker Rice:

   I am deeply sorry for what I did Saturday night, it was wrong and reckless.

2. Scott Blackmun:

   I am deeply sorry for those who were harmed and horrified that this happened on my watch.

3. Justin Bieber:

   I turned a lot of people off over the past few years, but I know I can still turn out good music and turn everything all around, i've lost some of my best qualities. For that, I am sorry.

4. Marc Edwards:

   I guess being a government agency means you never have to say you're sorry.

5. Florida GOP Rep. Ron DeSantis:

   This is a sorry train of false statements, americans will never get the truth.