blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
(adjective) causing dejection; “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”
deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry
(adjective) bad; unfortunate; “my finances were in a deplorable state”; “a lamentable decision”; “her clothes were in sad shape”; “a sorry state of affairs”
regretful, sorry, bad
(adjective) feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; “felt regretful over his vanished youth”; “regretful over mistakes she had made”; “he felt bad about breaking the vase”
meritless, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry
(adjective) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sorry (comparative sorrier, superlative sorriest)
(of a person) Regretful for an action; grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
Poor, pitifully sad or regrettable.
Pathetic and inferior to the point of causing others disgust.
• (regretful for an action or grieved): apologetic, attritional, compunctious, contrite, heavyhearted, melancholy, mournful, penitent, penitential, regretful, remorseful, repentant, sad, unhappy
sorry
Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow.
Used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly.
Used to correct oneself in speech.
• (express regret): soz (informal)
• (request to repeat): I beg your pardon?, I'm sorry?, say again, come again, excuse me? (US), what, huh, say what; see also say again
sorry (plural sorries or sorrys)
The act of saying sorry; an apology.
Source: Wiktionary
Sor"ry, a. [Compar. Sorrier; superl. Sorriest.] Etym: [OE. sory, sary, AS. sarig, fr. sar, n., sore. See Sore, n. & a. The original sense was, painful; hence. miserable, sad.]
1. Grieved for the loss of some good; pained for some evil; feeling regret; -- now generally used to express light grief or affliction, but formerly often used to express deeper feeling. "I am sorry for my sins." Piers Plowman. Ye were made sorry after a godly manner. 2 Cor. vii. 9. I am sorry for thee, friend; 't is the duke's pleasure. Shak. She entered, were he lief or sorry. Spenser.
2. Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful. Spenser. All full of chirking was this sorry place. Chaucer.
3. Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse. "With sorry grace." Chaucer. Cheeks of sorry grain will serve. Milton. Good fruit will sometimes grow on a sorry tree. Sir W. Scott.
Syn.
– Hurt; afflicted; mortified; vexed; chagrined; melancholy; dismal; poor; mean; pitiful.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
