sorry
English dictionary entry
Meanings
adj
- Regretful or apologetic for one's actions.
- Grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
- Poor, pitifully sad or regrettable.
- Pathetic; contemptibly inadequate.
intj
- Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow.
- Said as a request to excuse one's unintentional behaviors.
- Said as a request to pass somebody.
- Used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly.
- Used to correct oneself in speech.
- Used as a hedge.
noun
- The act of saying sorry; an apology.
verb
- To feel sorry (for someone).
Pronunciation
/ˈsɒɹi/
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/ˈsɑɹi/
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/ˈsoɹi/
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[ˈsɔɹɪ]
[ˈsoːɹɪ]
/ˈsɔɹi/
[ˈsɔ̟ɹi]
/ˈsɔɾe/
/ˈsɒɾi/
Word forms
sorry
sorrier
sorriest
sorries
sorrys
sorrying
sorried
Etymology
From Middle English sory, from Old English sāriġ (“feeling or expressing grief, sorry, grieved, sorrowful, sad, mournful, bitter”), from Proto-West Germanic *sairag, from Proto-Germanic *sairagaz (“sad”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂yro (“hard, rough, painful”). Cognate with Scots sairie (“sad, grieved”), Saterland Frisian seerich (“sore, inflamed”), West Frisian searich (“sad, sorry”), Low German serig (“sick, scabby”), German dialectal sehrig (“sore, sad, painful”), Swedish sårig. By surface analysis, sor(e) + -y. Unrelated to sorrow despite the similarity in form and meaning.
Synonyms
apologetic
compunctious
contrite
penitent
regretful
remorseful
repentant
repining
sorry
rueful
guilt-ridden
heavy-hearted
melancholy
mournful
atrabiliary
atrabilious
blitheless
dispirited
blue
bummed out
chapfallen
cheerless
chopfallen
crestfallen
cut up
damp
dejected
depressed
despondent
disgruntled
disconsolate
disheartened
dismal
doleful
dolesome
down
down in the dumps
down in the mouth
downcast
downhearted
downsome
dull
elegiac
elegious
forlorn
gloomy
glum
grief-stricken
grieving
heartsore
heartsick
inconsolable
infelicitous
jawfallen
joyless
lachrymose
lamentful
low
low-spirited
lugubrious
Translations
Afrikaans: ekskuus
Afrikaans: wat het jy gesê?
Afrikaans: wat sê jy?
Arabic: عَفْوًا!
Arabic: مَاذَا قُلْتَ؟
Arabic: مَاذَا قُلْتِ؟
Arabic: عُذْراً!
Bulgarian: мо́ля?
Catalan: perdó
Chinese Mandarin: 請再説一遍 /请再说一遍
Chinese Mandarin: 再説一遍 /再说一遍
Chinese Mandarin: 什麼？ /什么？
Chinese Mandarin: 哦？
Czech: prosím?
Danish: undskyld
Dutch: pardon?
Dutch: wat zegt u
Dutch: wat zeg je
Esperanto: pardonu
Finnish: anteeksi
French: excusez-moi
French: excuse-moi
French: pardon?
French: comment?
French: quoi
French: hein?
Georgian: უკაცრავად
Georgian: რა
German: wie bitte?
German: bitte?
German: wie?
Hungarian: tessék?
Hungarian: elnézést, nem értem
Icelandic: afsakið?
Icelandic: fyrirgefðu?
Indonesian: maaf
Irish: gabh mo leithscéal
Italian: cosa?
Italian: come?
Italian: scusa?
Italian: eh?
Italian: scusi?
Italian: mi scusi?
Japanese: もう一回
Japanese: もう一度
Japanese: もう一度いってください
Japanese: 何？
Japanese: え？
Korean: 네?
Korean: 예?
Korean: 다시 한번 더 말씀해주세요
Korean: 다시 한번 더 말씀해주시겠어요?
Korean: 뭐라고?
Korean: 뭐?
Korean: 어?
Korean: 넹?
Central Kurdish: ببوورە
Central Kurdish: بەڵێ
Latin: repete
Limburgish: waat?
Malay: minta maaf, maaf
Mongolian: юу гэнээ?
Norwegian Bokmål: unnskyld
Pannonian Rusyn: модлїм
Pannonian Rusyn: модлїме
Iranian Persian: بِبَخْشید
Iranian Persian: مَعْذِرَت میخواهَم
Polish: przepraszam?
Polish: słucham?
Portuguese: quê?
Portuguese: como?
Portuguese: hein?
Portuguese: perdão?
Russian: прошу́ проще́ния
Russian: что вы сказа́ли?
Russian: что?
Northern Sami: ándagassii
Scottish Gaelic: b' àill leat?
Scottish Gaelic: b' àill leibh?
Serbo-Croatian: molim?
Spanish: ¿cómo?
Spanish: ¿perdón?
Spanish: ¿ah?
Spanish: ¿eh?
Spanish: ¿mande?
Spanish: ¿qué cosa?
Swedish: ursäkta
Swedish: förlåt
Turkish: pardon?
Turkish: efendim
Ukrainian: про́шу?
Ukrainian: що?
Ukrainian: що-що?
Urdu: جِی؟
Urdu: کْیا؟
Walloon: kimint djhoz?
Walloon: kimint diss?
Walloon: cwè?
Walloon: pardon?
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