[ˈsɒri], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- feeling sad or distressed through sympathy with someone else's misfortune
(e.g: I was sorry to hear about what happened to your family)

- feeling regret or penitence
(e.g: he said he was sorry he had upset me)

- in a poor or pitiful state
(e.g: he looks a sorry sight with his broken jaw)


Phrases:
- be sorry to say
- sorry for oneself
- sorry not sorry

Origin:
Old English sārig ‘pained, distressed’, of West Germanic origin, from the base of the noun sore. The shortening of the root vowel has given the word an apparent connection with the unrelated sorrow