SORRY - Definition & Meaning for Kids
Meaning 1
Part of speech: Adjective (satellite)
bad
Example: unfortunate; my finances were in a deplorable state; a lamentable decision; her clothes were in sad shape; a sorry state of affairs
Meaning 2
Part of speech: Adjective
feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
Example: felt regretful over his vanished youth; regretful over mistakes she had made; he felt bad about breaking the vase
Meaning 3
Part of speech: Adjective (satellite)
without merit
Example: of little or no value or use; a sorry horse; a sorry excuse; a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick; the car was a no-good piece of junk
Meaning 4
Part of speech: Adjective (satellite)
causing dejection
Example: 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
Synonyms
Drear, Dingy, Regretful, No-count, No-good
Antonyms
🌱 Word Origin (Etymology)
The word "sorry" comes from Proto-Indo-European *sayǝw-. It started in Proto-Germanic *sairagaz. Then it appeared in Proto-West Germanic *sairag. Later, people used it in Old English sāriġ. After that, it was Middle English sory. Many other languages have similar words:.
- Scots: sairie
- Saterland Frisian: seerich
- West Frisian: searich
- Low German: serig
🔗 Related Words
sore – A related word in the same word family.
🧩 Fun Fact
This word's path shows how empires, trade, and scholarship spread vocabulary across continents.