Found 2 items, similar to sorrier.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: sorrier 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] sorrier See sorry
English → English (gcide) Definition: Sorrier 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. [1913 Webster] Ye were made sorry after a godly manner. --2 Cor. vii. 9. [1913 Webster] I am sorry for thee, friend; 't is the duke's pleasure. --Shak. [1913 Webster] She entered, were he lief or sorry. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 2. Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] All full of chirking was this sorry place. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 3. Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse. “With sorry grace.” --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Cheeks of sorry grain will serve. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Good fruit will sometimes grow on a sorry tree. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] Syn: Hurt; afflicted; mortified; vexed; chagrined; melancholy; dismal; poor; mean; pitiful. [1913 Webster]