sorry
English
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 *sayǝw- (“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. Despite the similarity in form and meaning, not related to sorrow. More at sore.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɒɹ.i/
Audio (RP) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒɹi
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈsɑɹ.i/, /ˈsɔɹ.i/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (Canada) (file) - Homophone: sari (some accents)
- Rhymes: -ɑɹi, -ɔɹi
Adjective
sorry (comparative sorrier, superlative sorriest)
- (of a person) Regretful or apologetic for one's actions.
- I am sorry I stepped on your toes. It was an accident.
- Synonyms: apologetic, compunctious, contrite, penitent, regretful, remorseful, repentant
- (of a person) Grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
- I am sorry for your loss.
- The President was sorry to hear that the Ambassador was leaving.
- Synonyms: heavy-hearted, melancholy, mournful
- Poor, pitifully sad or regrettable.
- The storm left his garden in a sorry state.
- Pathetic; contemptibly inadequate.
- Bob is a sorry excuse for a football player.
Derived terms
Translations
repentant, apologetic
grieved, saddened
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poor, regrettable
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Interjection
sorry
- Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow.
- Synonym: (slang, chiefly Britain) soz
- Sorry! I didn't see that you were on the phone.
- Sorry about yesterday. — No worries.
- Used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly.
- Synonyms: I beg your pardon?, I'm sorry?, say again, come again, (US) excuse me?; see also Thesaurus:say again
- Sorry? What was that? The phone cut out.
- Used to correct oneself in speech.
- There are four– sorry, five branches of the store locally.
- Said as a request to pass somebody.
- Synonym: excuse me
- Sorry! Coming through!
Descendants
Translations
expression of regret or sorrow
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request to repeat
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to correct oneself in speech
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Noun
sorry (plural sorries or sorrys)
- The act of saying sorry; an apology.
- 2007, Christopher Levan, Give Us This Day: Lenten Reflections on Baking Bread and Discipleship (page 107)
- The British would do it standing stock still, Latinos would dance their sorries, and Canadians would find a way to apologize on ice.
- 2008, Lucy S. Danziger, Self Magazine's 15 Minutes to Your Best Self:
- So learn how to tailor your sorries to the sexes. Women tend to want an acknowledgment of what they're going through...
- 2007, Christopher Levan, Give Us This Day: Lenten Reflections on Baking Bread and Discipleship (page 107)
Translations
Czech
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɔ.ri/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: sor‧ry
Interjection
sorry
- sorry (expressing regret)
- Je hebt me heel erg pijn gedaan toen je dat zei. — Sorry, dat is nooit mijn bedoeling geweest.
- You really hurt me a lot when you said that. — Sorry, that was never my intention.
- Je hebt me heel erg pijn gedaan toen je dat zei. — Sorry, dat is nooit mijn bedoeling geweest.
- sorry, pardon, excuse me
- Je stond op mijn voet! — Oh, sorry!
- You were standing on my foot! — Oh, sorry!
- Je stond op mijn voet! — Oh, sorry!
Derived terms
- sorrycultuur
- sorrydemocratie
- sorry, mijn naam is Corrie
Related terms
Descendants
- → Papiamentu: sòri
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈzɔʁi/, /ˈsɔri/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: sor‧ry
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɔ.rɨ/
- Rhymes: -ɔrɨ
- Syllabification: so‧rry
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsori/ [ˈso.ri]
- Rhymes: -ori
- Syllabification: so‧rry
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Swedish
Interjection
sorry
Usage notes
As with many English expressions in Swedish; the word sorry has much lower weight and meaning than its counterpart förlåt (“sorry”).
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Etymology
From Middle English sory, from Old English sāriġ, from Proto-West Germanic *sairag.
References
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 69
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