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describing word, sor·ri·er, sor·ri·est.

feeling regret, compunction, sympathy, pity, etc.: to be pitiful to go out one's friends; to be sorry for a remark; to be sad for someone in problem.

regrettable or pitiful; unfortunate; tragic: a sorry situation; to come to a pitiful end.

sorrowful, grieved, or pitiful: Was she sorry when her brother died?

associated with sorrow; suggestive of grief or suffering; melancholy; dismal.

wretched, poor, useless, or deplorable: a pitiful horse.

interjection

(used as a conventional apology or expression of regret): Sorry, you lot're misinformed. Did I bump you? Sorry.

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Origin of deplorable

Offset recorded earlier 900; Middle English; Old English language sārig; cognate with Depression German sērig, One-time High High german sērag. See sore, -y^one

synonym report for sorry

historical usage of sad

Sorry has been in written English since the time of King Alfred the Peachy (849–899), the word beginning appearing in his translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy. In Volume 1, King Alfred writes that Orpheus, having lost Eurydice, "became then pitiful ( sārig ) that he could non be among other men." Sārig "feeling grief, sad, sorrowful" is an adjective derived from the Erstwhile English noun sār "mental or bodily pain or suffering" ( sār is besides an adjective meaning "painful, sore, grievous"). Sār (noun and adjective) is akin to Old High German ser "painful" and the German language adverb sehr "very" (as in the King James Bible, e.g., Luke's Gospel 2:nine, "They were sore afraid").
There is no etymological connexion betwixt sār, sārig and Old English sorh, sorg "care, feet" (English sorrow ), which is akin to High german Sorge "intendance, anxiety." Merely even in Old English times, there was the semantic connection of "suffering" between sār, sārig and sorh, sorg. The Center English alter of sārig to sōri, then to sori (the modify of long o in sōri to the short o in sori is due to the influence of the noun sorrowe ), and the Middle English change of sorh, sorg to sorye, soro, sorrowe created a shut formal resemblance between sārig (in one Middle English spelling sori ) and sorh, sorg (in the Middle English spellings sorye, soro, sorrowe ), and sorrow has influenced the meaning of sorry ever since.

OTHER WORDS FROM sorry

sor·ri·ly, adverb sor·ri·ness, substantive united nations·sor·ry, adjective

Words nearby sorry

sorrel tree, Sorrentino, Sorrento, sorrow, sorrowful, sorry, sort, sorta, sortal, sortation, sort code

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Words related to sorry

apologetic, contrite, remorseful, regretful, touched, lamentable, sad, sorrowful, unhappy, dismal, deplorable, miserable, attritional, compunctious, censor-stricken, melted, penitent, penitential, repentant, self-accusing

How to utilize sorry in a sentence

• In discussing his two leading characters, he has said, "I didn't want u.s. to feel pitiful for them."

• I'thou even more than sad to report that Val Curtis, the British hygiene scholar we interviewed, died in October.

• We are truly pitiful, but unfortunately, the vaccine supply is not under our control.

• To business relationship for travel restrictions between the United States and Canada, the North Division — sorry, the Scotia North Sectionalisation — is composed of the league'southward seven Canadian teams.

• To attend and so leave, it is, "I'm sorry, I accept to go now."

• Its biggest asset, of grade, is the steely Atwell, who never asks you to experience sorry for Carter despite all the sexism around her.

• So she lies to the knight, telling him Madalena is sorry and wants him dorsum.

• I am so pitiful that your parents did this to you, developing their ain discriminatory take on your beingness.

• "Sad I can't requite y'all more, but at this fourth dimension our office has no annotate," his spokesman, Sergio Gor, said.

• "I feel sorry for what she did to Russ and his daughter," Gill said.

• Bernard was uncomfortable enough not to care to be mocked; merely he felt fifty-fifty more pitiful that Gordon should be.

• "I will," gruffly replied the human being, with a look which showed that he was pitiful to be forced to choose the 2nd alternative.

• He felt very pitiful for the Temecula people, the sheriff did; but he had to obey the law himself.

• "I am sorry," she replied instead, non saying a discussion virtually the poor little toes which the pretty pink lady had crushed.

• Meanwhile, as yous may well believe, he began to experience very pitiful that he had said anything nearly the verses.

British Dictionary definitions for deplorable

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adjective -rier or -riest

(usually postpositive often foll by for) feeling or expressing pity, sympathy, remorse, grief, or regret I feel deplorable for him

pitiful, wretched, or deplorable a sorry sight

poor; paltry a sorry excuse

affected by sorrow; sad

causing sorrow or sadness

interjection

an exclamation expressing apology, used esp at the time of the misdemeanour, offence, etc

Derived forms of lamentable

sorrily, adverb sorriness, noun

Give-and-take Origin for lamentable

Old English sārig; related to Old High german sērag; meet sore

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Other Idioms and Phrases with sorry

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see better prophylactic than lamentable.

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