Sorry

Adjective

 * 1)  Regretful for an action; grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
 * 2) Poor, sad or regrettable.

Noun

 * 1) The act of saying sorry; an apology.

Adverbs for Sorry
pitifully; wretchedly; sincerely; genuinely; truly; pitiably; miserably; grievously; profoundly; deeply; abjectly; remorsefully; embarrassingly; humbly; bitterly; regretfully; penitently; admittedly; extremely; immeasurably; reasonably; somewhat.

Thesaurus
abject, apologetic, ashamed, bad, base, base-minded, beggarly, beneath contempt, beneath one, cheap, cheerless, cheesy, common, compunctious, conscience-smitten, conscience-stricken, contemptible, contrite, crummy, debasing, degrading, demeaning, deplorable, depressing, despicable, discontented, disgraceful, dismal, full of remorse, gaudy, gimcracky, grim, gutter, heavyhearted, humiliating, humiliative, humorless, ignoble, ill-starred, in bad humor, inadequate, infestive, infra dig, infra indignitatem, joyless, low, low-minded, mean, melancholy, meretricious, mirthless, miserable, opprobrious, out of humor, out of sorts, outrageous, paltry, pathetic, penitent, penitential, pitiable, pitiful, pleasureless, poor, regretful, remorseful, repentant, repining, rubbishy, rueful, sad, saddened, scandalous, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, self-accusing, self-condemning, self-convicting, self-debasing, self-flagellating, self-humiliating, self-punishing, self-reproaching, shabby, shamefaced, shamefast, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sordid, sorrowful, sorryish, star-crossed, stark, too bad, trashy, trifling, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unbecoming, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy, unhappy about, unjoyful, unmirthful, unsmiling, unworthy of one, valueless, vile, wistful, worthless, wretched

Etymology
From sory:, from  sarig:, from, from. Cognate with serig:,  dialectal sehrig:. More at.

Pronunciation

 * (latter used in Canada)
 * (latter used in Canada)

Synonyms

 * apologetic, attritional, compunctious, contrite, heavyhearted, melancholy, mournful, penitent, penitential, regretful, remorseful, repentant, sad, unhappy

Derived terms

 * better safe than sorry

Interjection
sorry!


 * 1) Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow.
 * Sorry! I didn't see that you were on the phone.
 * 1) Used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly.
 * Sorry? What was that?  The phone cut out.

Synonyms

 * I beg your pardon?, I'm sorry?, Come again?, Excuse me? 🇺🇸

Related terms

 * sorrow
 * sorrowful

Adjective

 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic: آسف
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ked af
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: Es tut mir leid
 * Hungarian: sajnál verb
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ;  すまない, 申し訳ない;  , ,


 * Kurdish: ,
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: skużani
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: жаль (žal’), сожалеющий,  огорчённый
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * American Sign Language:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: sørgelig
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Japanese: 気の毒な, ;  ,


 * Kurdish:
 * Limburgish: zörgelik
 * Norwegian: sørgelig
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:

Interjection

 * Afrikaans:
 * Alutiiq:
 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic: آسف, آسفة, أنا آسف, أنا آسفة
 * Belarusian: выбачайце,   выбачай
 * Bengali: দুঃখিত, মাফ করবেন,  সরি
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: извинете,  извинявай,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: (formal and written),, ,
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech: (informal singular),  (plural or formal singular),
 * Danish: undskyld, beklager
 * Dutch: het spijt me, rouwig, sorry
 * Finnish: anteeksi, sori, olen pahoillani, pahoittelen
 * French: désolé, navré, excusez-moi, excuse-moi
 * Georgian: უკაცრავად
 * German: entschuldigen Sie bitte, verzeihen Sie bitte, es tut mir Leid, ich bitte um Entschuldigung/Verzeihung, Verzeihung, (less formal) Entschuldigung, sorry
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: माफ़ कीजिए, सॉरी
 * Hungarian: elnézést, elnézést kérek, ,
 * Icelandic:, ,
 * Irish: tá brón orm
 * Italian: scusi,scusa, mi scusi, mi scuso
 * Japanese:, , 失礼しました, 申し訳ありません
 * Jingpho: tawng ban sai yaw
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Khmer: សូមទោស


 * Korean: 죄송합니다, ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin: mihi ignosce,, , mihi ignoscite, mihi ignoscite
 * Limburgish: spietelik
 * Lithuanian: apgailestauju
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: skużi, skużani
 * Mongolian: уучлаарай
 * Norwegian: unnskyld, beklager
 * Persian: معذرت می‌خواهم, ببخشید
 * Polish: przepraszam, przykro mi
 * Portuguese:,  perdão,   foi mal
 * Romanian: îmi pare rău, scuză/scuză-mă (informal, familiar), scuzaţi/scuzaţi-mă (formal, polite)
 * Russian: (formal/informal),  (formal/informal), прошу прощения,  извиниться
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: извините, извини
 * Roman: izvinite, izvini
 * Slovak: prepáčte,   prepáč,  bohužiaľ
 * Slovene:,  oprosti
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: paumanhin, patawad
 * Thai: ขอโทษ
 * Turkish:, özür dilerim (literally "I apologize"),  afedersin (colloquial; informal, singular), affedersin (written; informal, singular), afedersiniz (colloquial; formal, plural), affedersiniz (written; informal, singular) üzgünüm (literally "I am sorry")
 * Ukrainian: пробачте,   пробач, перепрошую
 * Urdu: معاف کیجیئے
 * Vietnamese:
 * !Xóõ: ǀùa ǁʻúm ǀnān


 * Arabic:, ماذا قلت,  عذرا
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 請再説一遍, 请再说一遍, 再説一遍, 再说一遍, ,  ,
 * Czech: ?
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: pardon?, wat zegt u,  wat zeg je
 * Finnish:
 * French: désolé, excusez-moi, excuse-moi, pardon ?, comment ?,
 * German: wie bitte? bitte?,
 * Hungarian: tessék?, elnézést, nem értem
 * Icelandic: afsakið?, fyrirgefðu?
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: gabh mo leithscéal
 * Italian: mi scusi, mi scuso
 * Japanese:, add いってください (itte kudasai) (to the end to make the request more polite),  ,


 * Kurdish: ,
 * Limburgish: waat?
 * Mongolian: юу гэнээ
 * Norwegian: unnskyld
 * Persian: ببخشید, معذرت می‌خواهم
 * Polish: przepraszam?, słucham?
 * Portuguese: quê? ?; hein?
 * Russian: прошу прощения, что вы сказали?, (plain)
 * Scottish Gaelic: ? (informal singular), ? (plural or formal singular)
 * Serbian: molim?
 * Spanish: ¿cómo?, ¿perdón?, ¿ah?, ¿eh? , ¿mande?
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish: ?, efendim?