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Meaning of sorry

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  sorry
      adj 1: 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" [syn: {regretful},
             {sorry}, {bad}] [ant: {unregretful}, {unregretting}]
      2: bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state";
         "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a
         sorry state of affairs" [syn: {deplorable}, {distressing},
         {lamentable}, {pitiful}, {sad}, {sorry}]
      3: 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" [syn: {good-for-nothing}, {good-for-naught},
         {meritless}, {no-account}, {no-count}, {no-good}, {sorry}]
      4: 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" [syn: {blue},
         {dark}, {dingy}, {disconsolate}, {dismal}, {gloomy}, {grim},
         {sorry}, {drab}, {drear}, {dreary}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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