1. feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; - Example: "felt regretful over his vanished youth" - Example: "regretful over mistakes she had made" - Example: "he felt bad about breaking the vase" [syn: regretful, sorry, bad]
2. bad; unfortunate; - Example: "my finances were in a deplorable state" - Example: "a lamentable decision" - Example: "her clothes were in sad shape" - Example: "a sorry state of affairs" [syn: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry]
3. without merit; - Example: "a sorry horse" - Example: "a sorry excuse" - Example: "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick" - Example: "the car was a no-good piece of junk" [syn: good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry]
4. causing dejection; - Example: "a blue day" - Example: "the dark days of the war" - Example: "a week of rainy depressing weather" - Example: "a disconsolate winter landscape" - Example: "the first dismal dispiriting days of November" - Example: "a dark gloomy day" - Example: "grim rainy weather" [syn: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary]