sorry
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(of a person) Regretful or apologetic for one's actions.
I am sorry I stepped on your toes. It was an accident.
Đồng nghĩa: apologetic, compunctious, contrite, penitent, regretful, remorseful, repentant, regretful, repining, sorry, rueful, remorseful, penitent, repentant, apologetic, contrite, guilt-ridden
- 2.
(of a person) Grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
I feel sorry for you, about your exam results.
The President was sorry to hear that the Ambassador was leaving.
Đồng nghĩa: 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, heavy-hearted, heartsore, heartsick, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, passionate, plaintive, Plutonian, Plutonic, querulous, ruthful, sad, saddened, saturnine, shattered, solemn, sombre, sorrowful, sorrow-ridden, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched
- 3.
Poor, pitifully sad or regrettable.
The storm left his garden in a sorry state.
Đồng nghĩa: pathetic, pitiable, compassionate, pathetic, pathetisad, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, pitisome, poor, rueful, ruthful, snivelly, sorry-ass
- 4.
Pathetic; contemptibly inadequate.
Bob is a sorry excuse for a football player.
Đồng nghĩa: deficient, insufficient, awanting, deficient, dismal, exiguous, geason, inadequate, insufficient, lank, lean, lousy, meager, measly, paltry, poor, raunchy, scant, scantling, scanty, scarce, skimpy, sleazy, slender, spare, sparse, threadbare, unsatisfactory, unsufficient, wanting, wanty
interjection
interjection- 1.
Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow.
Sorry! I didn't see that you were on the phone.
Sorry about yesterday. — No worries.
Sorry I’m so late.
Đồng nghĩa: soz
- 2.
Said as a request to excuse one's unintentional behaviors.
Oops! Sorry!
Đồng nghĩa: excuse me
- 3.
Said as a request to pass somebody.
Sorry! Coming through!
Đồng nghĩa: excuse me
- 4.
Used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly.
Sorry? What was that? The phone cut out.
Đồng nghĩa: I beg your pardon?, I'm sorry?, say again, come again, excuse me?
- 5.
Used to correct oneself in speech.
There are four—sorry, five—local branches of the store.
- 6.
Used as a hedge.
Sorry, but I don't care what you think.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
The act of saying sorry; an apology.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive, rare, transitive)To feel sorry (for someone).
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From Middle English sory, from Old English sāriġ, from *sairag, from Proto-Germanic *sairagaz (sad), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂yro (hard, rough, painful). Cognate with sairie, seerich, searich, serig, dialectal sehrig (sore, sad, painful), Swedish sårig. en sore y. Unrelated to sorrow despite the similarity in form and meaning.