sorry

adj

1. remorseful, regretful, rueful, contrite, compunctious; conscience-stricken, conscience-smitten, guilt-ridden, repining, regretting, full of regrets; apologetic, repentant, penitent, pentitential, atoning, in sackcloth and ashes; humbled, abject, sheepish, embarrassed, chastened; ashamed, shameful, shamed, shamefaced, Sl. bummed out, disturbed, troubled.

2. sympathetic, understanding, commiserative, commiserating, empathetic, pitying, full of pity.

3. miserable, wretched, pitiful, pitiable, piteous, Inf. lousy, Sl. rotten; adverse, difficult, troublesome, hard, trying; star-crossed, ill-starred, evil-starred, unlucky, luckless, unfortunate, hapless; tragic, ruinous, fatal, dire, black, grievous, joyless, grim, stark, bleak; abject, sordid.

4. sorrowful, dejected, depressed, despondent, crestfallen, downcast. See sorrowful(def. 1).

5. melancholy, dismal, disheartening, depressing, dreary, somber, dark, gloomy; solemn, wailful, sepulchral, funereal, melancholic, plaintive; threnodic, dirgelike, dirgeful, epicedial, elegiac; pathetic, touching, heartrending, heartbreaking.

6. destitute, indigent, poverty-stricken, abject, needy, wanting, lacking, beggared, beggarly; poor, underprivileged, disadvantaged, deprived, bereft, Inf. hard-up; impoverished, ruined, down-and-out, down at the heels, out at the elbows, Sl. busted, Sl. broke.