SORRY
What does "SORRY" mean?
Feeling regret, sympathy, or sadness about something.
Meanings
- Feeling or expressing regret, remorse, or apology. She was sorry the moment the words left her mouth.
- Feeling sympathy or pity for someone. I felt sorry for the soaked dog shivering at the gate.
- Wretched, pitiful, or poor in quality. The team made a sorry showing in the final.
- Used as an apology or to ask someone to repeat themselves. Sorry, could you say that again? informal
Did you know?
- 'Sorry' and 'sorrow' look like twins but are not related: 'sorry' grew from 'sore' (meaning painful), while 'sorrow' came from a separate root, and their similar spellings simply pulled them together over centuries.
Word origin
From Old English 'sarig' meaning pained or distressed, derived from 'sar' (sore); the spelling drifted toward 'sorry' under the influence of 'sorrow', though the two words are not etymologically related.
Remember it
SORRY holds SORE: an apology is for the soreness you caused.
A little poem
One word, two syllables, said too late-
it cannot lift the cup back off the floor,
but it can choose to sweep, and not to wait.
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Wordplay
- Canadians say sorry so reflexively that two of them once apologized for ten minutes about who bumped whom, and to this day no one knows who started it.
What it teaches
A real sorry names what you broke; everything shorter is just a flinch.
Quick facts
What does SORRY mean?
Feeling regret, sympathy, or sadness about something.
Is SORRY a valid word?
Yes — SORRY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is SORRY?
SORRY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does SORRY come from?
From Old English 'sarig' meaning pained or distressed, derived from 'sar' (sore); the spelling drifted toward 'sorry' under the influence of 'sorrow', though the two words are not etymologically related.
What can SORRY teach us?
A real sorry names what you broke; everything shorter is just a flinch.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.