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say it: SAH-ree
sorry is an adjective meaning "feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone". It is pronounced /ˈsɑɹi/ — SAH-ree. It carries 4 recorded senses.
bad; unfortunate
“my finances were in a deplorable state”
“a lamentable decision”
“her clothes were in sad shape”
“a sorry state of affairs”
without merit; 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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sorry come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.