sorry, adj.
(sorrier, sorriest)
freq. cnt. 2
(sorrier, sorriest)
freq. cnt. 2
bad; unfortunate
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1
deplorable distressing lamentable pitiful sad sorry
sample sentences
"my finances were in a deplorable state""a lamentable decision"
"her clothes were in sad shape"
"a sorry state of affairs"
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feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
bad regretful sorry
sample sentences
"felt regretful over his vanished youth""regretful over mistakes she had made"
"he felt bad about breaking the vase"
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causing dejection
<adj.all>
blue dark dingy disconsolate dismal drab drear dreary gloomy grim sorry
sample sentences
"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"
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without merit; of little or no value or use
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
good-for-naught good-for-nothing meritless no-account no-count no-good sorry
sample sentences
"a sorry horse""a sorry excuse"
"a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"
"the car was a no-good piece of junk"
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