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| Main Entry: | sorry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | remorseful, regretful |
| Synonyms: | apologetic, conscience-stricken, contrite, melted, penitent, repentant, shamefaced, touched, attritional, compunctious, guilt-ridden, penitential, self-accusing, self-condemnatory, self-reproachful, softened |
| Antonyms: | glad, happy, unremorseful, unsorry |
| Main Entry: | sorry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sad, heartbroken |
| Synonyms: | bad, disconsolate, distressed, heavyhearted, melancholy, mournful, pitiful, rueful, sorrowful, unhappy, grieved, saddened |
| Antonyms: | happy, joyful, heartened |
| Main Entry: | sorry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | despicable, pathetic |
| Synonyms: | abject, base, beggarly, cheap, contemptible, deplorable, disgraceful, dismal, distressing, inadequate, insignificant, mean, miserable, paltry, piteous, pitiful, poor, sad, scruffy*, shabby, shoddy, small, trifling, trivial, unimportant, vile, worthless, wretched, despisable, pitiable, scummy, scurvy |
| Antonyms: | good, hopeful, nice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | apologetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expressing remorse, regret |
| Synonyms: | atoning, attritional, compunctious, conciliatory, contrite, expiatory, explanatory, on one's knees, penitent, penitential, propitiatory, regretful, remorseful, repentant, rueful, self-effacing, self-incriminating, sorry, supplicating |
| Antonyms: | defiant, defying |
| Main Entry: | ashamed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | regretting, remorseful |
| Synonyms: | abashed, apologetic, bashful, blushing, conscience-stricken, contrite, crestfallen, debased, disconcerted, distraught, distressed, embarrassed, guilty, hesitant, humble, humiliated, meek, muddled, penitent, regretful, reluctant, repentant, shamed, shamefaced, sheepish, shy, sorry, submissive, chagrined, compunctious, demeaned, discomfited, flustered, humbled, mortified, stammering, stuttering |
| Antonyms: | bold, defiant, immodest, shameless, not sorry, unregretful, unremorseful, unself-conscious |
| Main Entry: | base |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulgar, low |
| Synonyms: | abject, abominable, cheap, coarse, common, contemptible, corrupt, depraved, despicable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, foul, humble, ignoble, immoral, indelicate, loathsome, lowly, mean, menial, offensive, paltry, pitiful, plebeian, poor, scandalous, servile, shameful, shoddy, sleazy, sordid, sorry, squalid, trashy, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched, grovelling |
| Antonyms: | good, honest, moral, noble |
| Main Entry: | contemptible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | despicable, shameful |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abject, abominable, bad, base, beggarly, cheap, crass, degenerate, detestable, dirty, disgusting, hateful, heel, ignoble, ignominious, inferior, low, lowest, mean, odious, outcast, paltry, pitiful, poor, sad, shabby, sordid, sorry*, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched, currish, despisable, low-down*, pitiable, scummy, scurvy, swinish |
| Notes: | contemptible means deserving contempt, while contemptuous means bestowing contempt; the first sense of contemptuous was 'despising law and order' |
| Antonyms: | admirable, good, honorable, loved, respectable, worthy, admired |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | contrite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | regretful |
| Synonyms: | apologetic, conscience-stricken, humble, penitent, remorseful, repentant, sorrowful, sorry, attritional, chastened, compunctious, penitential |
| Antonyms: | hurtful, indifferent, mean, unrepentant |
| Main Entry: | detestable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | loathsome, abominable |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, accursed, atrocious, awful, despicable, disgusting, execrable, gross*, hateful, heinous, lousy, maggot, monstrous, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, shocking, sorry, vile, abhorred, godawful, grody, hateable, horrid, low-down |
| Antonyms: | admirable, adorable, respectable, respected, adored, cherished, likeable, loveable, prized |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disreputable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonorable, lowly |
| Synonyms: | abject, bad, base, beggarly, cheap, contemptible, derogatory, despicable, disgraceful, disorderly, dissolute, ignominious, infamous, inglorious, lewd, libidinous, licentious, mean, notorious, opprobrious, scandalous, shabby, shady, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sordid, sorry, unprincipled, vicious, vile, discreditable, in bad, in low esteem, in the doghouse, no good, pitiable, scurvy |
| Antonyms: | decent, ethical, honorable, reputable, respected, principled |
| Main Entry: | guilty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | blameworthy; found at fault |
| Synonyms: | accusable, caught, censurable, censured, chargeable, condemned, conscience-stricken, contrite, convictable, convicted, criminal, culpable, damned, delinquent, depraved, doomed, erring, evil, felonious, hangdog*, impeached, in error, in the wrong, incriminated, iniquitous, judged, liable, licentious, offending, on one's head, out of line, proscribed, regretful, remorseful, reprehensible, responsible, rueful, sentenced, sheepish, sinful, sorry, wicked, wrong |
| Antonyms: | guiltless, innocent, moral, right, sinless, truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | infamous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shameful, bad in reputation |
| Synonyms: | abominable, atrocious, base, caitiff, contemptible, corrupt, degenerate, despicable, detestable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, egregious, evil, flagitious, foul, hateful, heinous, ignominious, iniquitous, loathsome, miscreant, monstrous, nefarious, notorious, odious, offensive, opprobrious, outrageous, perverse, questionable, rotten, scandalous, shady, shocking, sorry, unhealthy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, ill-famed, scurvy |
| Antonyms: | dignified, glorious, good, innocent, moral, perfect, pure, respectable, righteous, virtuous, principled |
| Main Entry: | melancholy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, sad |
| Synonyms: | blue*, dejected, despondent, destroyed, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, doleful, dolorous, down*, down in the mouth*, downbeat, downcast, downhearted, droopy, funereal, gloomy, glum, grim, heavyhearted, joyless, lachrymose, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, miserable, moody, mournful, pensive, somber, sorrowful, sorry*, trite, unhappy, wet blanket*, wistful, woebegone, woeful, down and out, down in the dumps, dragged, in blue funk, mirthless, moony, saddened, saddening, torn up |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, joyful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | menial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lowly, low-status |
| Synonyms: | abject, base, boring, common, degrading, dull, fawning, humble, humdrum, ignoble, ignominious, low, mean, obeisant, obsequious, routine, servile, slavish, sorry, subservient, unskilled, vile, baseborn, demeaning, grovelling, sycophantic |
| Antonyms: | elevated, skilled, superior, talented |
| Main Entry: | paltry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor; worthless |
| Synonyms: | base, beggarly, cheap, common, contemptible, despicable, ineffectual, insignificant, limited, low, meager, mean, measly, minor, miserable, narrow, petty, picayune, piddling, pitiful, puny, set, shabby, shoddy, sleazy*, slight, small, sorry*, trashy, trifling, trivial, unimportant, vile, wretched, derisory, inconsiderable, low-down*, unconsequential |
| Antonyms: | important, rich, significant, substantial, wealthy, worthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pathetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sad, affecting |
| Synonyms: | deplorable, distressing, feeble, heartbreaking, heartrending*, inadequate, lamentable, meager, melting, miserable, moving, paltry, petty, piteous, pitiful, plaintive, poignant, poor, puny, rueful, sorry*, tender, touching, useless, woeful, worthless, wretched, commiserable, pitiable |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, useful, worthwhile |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | penitent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shamed, sorrowful |
| Synonyms: | abject, apologetic, conscience-stricken, contrite, regretful, remorseful, repentant, rueful, sorry, atoning, attritional, compunctious, penitential |
| Antonyms: | happy, unashamed, unrepentent |
| Main Entry: | pitiful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in bad shape; poor |
| Synonyms: | abject, affecting, afflicted, base, beggarly, cheap, cheerless, compassionate, contemptible, deplorable, despicable, dismal, distressed, distressing, grievous, heartbreaking, heartrending, inadequate, insignificant, joyless, lamentable, low, mean, miserable, mournful, moving, paltry, pathetic, piteous, sad, shabby, sorrowful, sorry, stirring, suffering, tearful, touching, vile, woeful, worthless, wretched, arousing, comfortless, commiserative, pitiable, scurvy |
| Antonyms: | excellent, happy, superb, superior, wonderful, worthwhile |
| Main Entry: | remorseful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | guilty, ashamed |
| Synonyms: | apologetic, conscience-stricken, contrite, mournful, penitent, regretful, repentant, rueful, sad, sorrowful, sorry, attritional, chastened, compunctious, guilt-ridden, penitential, self-reproachful |
| Antonyms: | callous, merciless, remorseless, ruthless, unmerciful, unashamed |
| Main Entry: | rueful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | regretful |
| Synonyms: | apologetic, ashamed, deplorable, lamentable, mournful, remorseful, repentant, sad, sorrowful, sorry |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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