资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

            Ye were made sorry after a godly manner. --2 Cor.
                                                  vii. 9.

            I am sorry for thee, friend; 't is the duke's
            pleasure.                             --Shak.

            She entered, were he lief or sorry.   --Spenser.

   2. Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful. --Spenser.

            All full of chirking was this sorry place.
                                                  --Chaucer.

   3. Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse. ``With sorry
      grace.'' --Chaucer.

            Cheeks of sorry grain will serve.     --Milton.

            Good fruit will sometimes grow on a sorry tree.
                                                  --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.

   Syn: Hurt; afflicted; mortified; vexed; chagrined;
        melancholy; dismal; poor; mean; pitiful.

资料来源 : WordNet®

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}