- Types Of Speech
- You can use sorry as a article or as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Sorry
- A 2 syllables article and 5 letters with the letters o, r, s, and y, 4 consonants, 1 vowels and 2 syllables with the middle letter r. Sorry starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters s, so, sor, sorr, and the ending characters are y, ry, rry, orry, . Sorry is also a double consonant (rr) word. View the double consonant words list.
- Definition
- 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
- Origin/Roots
- Middle English
- Scrabble
- Is sorry a scrabble word? A 8 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Sorry in Pig Latin is said as "orrysay or orrysway".
- Unigram
- s | o | r | r | y
- Bigram
- so | or | rr | ry
- Trigram
- sor | orr | rry
- Quadrigram
- sorr | orry
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- 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 - 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 - bad;
unfortunate;
"my finances were in a deplorable state";
"a lamentable decision";
"her clothes were in sad shape";
"a sorry state of affairs" - 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" - feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
- 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"
- Article Examples
- 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"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abject | showing humiliation or submissiveness "an abject apology" |
| Achromatic | having no hue |
| Achromic | having no color |
| Achromous | having no color |
| Acier | |
| Adulteress | a woman adulterer |
| Adverse | in an opposing direction "adverse currents" "a contrary wind" |
| Affecting | arousing affect "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene" "poignant grief cannot endure forever" "his gratitude was simple and touching" |
| Afflictive | causing misery or pain or distress "it was a sore trial to him" "the painful process of growing up" |
| Ailment | an often persistent bodily disorder or disease a cause for complaining |
View all cognitive synonyms for Sorry
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sorry | 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 |
View English words with the unique letters used in sorry. Words With The Letters Orsy
| Similar Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cheerless | lacking cheer; depressing; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place" |
| Uncheerful | lacking cheer; depressing; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place" |
| Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masonry (7 letters) | 12 +4 | 13 +6 | masonry | ||
| Droshky (7 letters) | 18 +10 | 16 +9 | droshky | ||
| Drosky (6 letters) | 14 +6 | 13 +6 | drosky | ||
| Hosiery (7 letters) | 13 +5 | 11 +4 | hosiery | ||
| Rayons (6 letters) | 9 +1 | 9 +2 | rayons | ||
| Rosary (6 letters) | 9 +1 | 8 +1 | aorrsy | ||
| Synchro (7 letters) | 15 +7 | 15 +8 | synchro | ||
| Eyesore (7 letters) | 10 +2 | 9 +2 | eyesore | ||
| Sorcery (7 letters) | 12 +4 | 12 +5 | ceorrsy | ||
| Nynorsk (7 letters) | 14 +6 | 15 +8 | nynorsk | ||
| Argosy (6 letters) | 10 +2 | 10 +3 | argosy | ||
| Mysore (6 letters) | 11 +3 | 11 +4 | mysore | ||
| Crosby (6 letters) | 13 +5 | 14 +7 | crosby | ||
| Saroyan (7 letters) | 10 +2 | 10 +3 | saroyan | ||
| Rosebay (7 letters) | 12 +4 | 12 +5 | rosebay | ||
| Signory (7 letters) | 11 +3 | 12 +5 | signory | ||
| Rosy (4 letters) | 7 | 6 | rosy | ||
| Sorry (5 letters) | 8 | 7 | orrsy | ||
| Sensory (7 letters) | 10 +2 | 10 +3 | enorssy | ||
| Grossly (7 letters) | 11 +3 | 12 +5 | grossly | ||
| Soberly (7 letters) | 12 +4 | 13 +6 | soberly | ||
| Crossly (7 letters) | 12 +4 | 13 +6 | crossly | ||
| Sorely (6 letters) | 9 +1 | 9 +2 | sorely | ||
| Horsy (5 letters) | 11 +3 | 9 +2 | horsy | ||
| Sheryo (6 letters) | 12 +4 | 10 +3 | sheryo |
Sorry Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With S
- Ends With Y
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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