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Textual thesaurus for "sorry"

(adj) gloomy, grim, dark, drab, drear, dreary, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, blue

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


(adj) deplorable, distressing, pitiful, lamentable, sad

bad; unfortunate

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


(adj) regretful, bad

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


(adj) no-account, no-count, no-good, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, meritless

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