Sorrier

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sorry \Sor"ry\, a. [Compar. {Sorrier}; superl. {Sorriest}.] [OE.
     sory, sary, AS. s[=a]rig, fr. s[=a]r, 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.
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              Ye were made sorry after a godly manner. --2 Cor.
                                                    vii. 9.
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              I am sorry for thee, friend; 't is the duke's
              pleasure.                             --Shak.
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              She entered, were he lief or sorry.   --Spenser.
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     2. Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful. --Spenser.
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              All full of chirking was this sorry place.
                                                    --Chaucer.
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     3. Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse. "With sorry
        grace." --Chaucer.
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              Cheeks of sorry grain will serve.     --Milton.
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              Good fruit will sometimes grow on a sorry tree.
                                                    --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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     Syn: Hurt; afflicted; mortified; vexed; chagrined;
          melancholy; dismal; poor; mean; pitiful.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sorry
       adj 1: keenly sorry or regretful; "felt bad about letting the team
              down"; "was sorry that she had treated him so badly";
              "felt bad about breaking the vase" [syn: {bad}]
       2: feeling or expressing sorrow or pity; "a pitying observer
          threw his coat around her shoulders"; "let him perish
          without a pitying thought of ours wasted upon him"- Thomas
          De Quincey [syn: {pitying}, {sorry for(p)}]
       3: having 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" [syn: {regretful}]
          [ant: {unregretful}]
       4: feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
          [syn: {contrite}, {remorseful}, {rueful}, {ruthful}]
       5: bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state";
          "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape";
          "a sorry state of affairs" [syn: {deplorable}, {distressing},
           {lamentable}, {pitiful}, {sad}]
       6: depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy
          streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens;
          "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy
          tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of
          death"- B.A.Williams [syn: {dingy}, {dismal}, {drab}, {drear},
           {dreary}, {gloomy}]
       7: without merit; "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy
          no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a
          no-good piece of junk" [syn: {good-for-nothing}, {good-for-naught},
           {meritless}, {no-account}, {no-count}, {no-good}]
       [also: {sorriest}, {sorrier}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sorrier
       See {sorry}