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sorry
Overview of adj sorry
The adj sorry has 5 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (3) pitying, sorry -- (feeling or expressing sorrow or pity; "a pitying observer threw his coat around her shoulder")
2. (1) regretful, sorry, 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")
3. (1) deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry -- (bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs")
4. (1) blue, dark, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary -- (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")
5. good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry -- (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")
Antonyms of adj sorry
5 senses of sorry
Sense 1
pitying, sorry
INDIRECT (VIA compassionate) -> uncompassionate
Sense 2
regretful (vs. unregretful), sorry, bad
Sense 3
deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry
INDIRECT (VIA bad) -> good
Sense 4
blue, dark, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
INDIRECT (VIA cheerless) -> cheerful
Sense 5
good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry
INDIRECT (VIA worthless) -> valuable
Similarity of adj sorry
5 senses of sorry
Sense 1
pitying, sorry
=> compassionate (vs. uncompassionate)
Sense 2
regretful (vs. unregretful), sorry, bad
Also See> penitent#1, repentant#1
Sense 3
deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry
=> bad (vs. good)
Sense 4
blue, dark, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
=> cheerless (vs. cheerful), uncheerful
Sense 5
good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry
=> worthless (vs. valuable)
Pertainyms of adj sorry
Attributes of adj sorry
Domain of adj sorry
Domain Terms of adj sorry
Familiarity of adj sorry
sorry used as an adjective is common (polysemy count =5)
Grep of adj sorry
sorry
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