adjective
- Feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone.
- usage: "felt regretful over his vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase"
- Bad; unfortunate.
- usage: "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
- synonyms: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad
- Without merit.
- usage: "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no-good piece of junk"
- synonyms: good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good
- Causing dejection.
- usage: "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
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