sorry

sor-ry · adjective

imported

Definitions

adjective

  1. 1.

    (adjective) Feeling regret or penitence.

  2. 2.

    (adjective) Feeling sympathy for someone's misfortune.

  3. 3.

    (adjective) In a poor or pitiful state.

  4. 4.

    (interjection) Used to express apology.

  5. 5.

    (interjection) Used to ask someone to repeat something.

Related words

Antonyms: glad, unapologetic
See also: apologize, forgive, regret
Synonyms: apologetic, regretful, remorseful

Etymology

From Old English sārig ("distressed, grieved, sorrowful"), from sār ("pain, wound"), from Proto-Germanic sairaz ("painful"). Related to sore. The original meaning was "feeling physical pain," which evolved to emotional distress and then to expressing regret.