Found 2 items, similar to Sorriest.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: sorriest
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]
sorriest
See
sorry
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Sorriest
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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