What is "sorrier"

Sorry \Sor"ry\, a. [Compar. Sorrier; superl. Sorriest.] [OE. sory, sary, AS. s[=a]rig, fr. s[=a]r, n., sore. See Sore, n. & a. The original sense was, painful; hence, miserable, sad.]

1. Grieved for the loss of some good; pained for some evil; feeling regret; -- now generally used to express light grief or affliction, but formerly often used to express deeper feeling. ``I am sorry for my sins.''
   --Piers Plowman.

   Ye were made sorry after a godly manner.
   --2 Cor. vii. 9.

   I am sorry for thee, friend; 't is the duke's pleasure.
   --Shak.

   She entered, were he lief or sorry.
   --Spenser.

2. Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.
   --Spenser.

   All full of chirking was this sorry place.
   --Chaucer.

3. Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse. ``With sorry grace.''
   --Chaucer.

   Cheeks of sorry grain will serve.
   --Milton.

   Good fruit will sometimes grow on a sorry tree.
   --Sir W. Scott.

   Syn: Hurt; afflicted; mortified; vexed; chagrined; melancholy; dismal; poor; mean; pitiful.

a. (en-comparativesorry)

1. adj. 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" [syn: bad]

2. 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 [syn: pitying, sorry for(p)]

3. 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" [syn: regretful] [ant: unregretful]

4. feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses [syn: contrite, remorseful, rueful, ruthful]

5. bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs" [syn: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad]

6. 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 [syn: dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy]

7. 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" [syn: good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good]

8. [also: sorriest, sorrier]

See sorry