Langtolang Multilingual Dictionary

ADJECTIVE 4

1. feeling or expressing 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”
   • “he felt bad about breaking the vase”
   Synonymsregretfulbad

2. bad; unfortunate

   • “my finances were in a deplorable state”
   • “a lamentable decision”
   • “her clothes were in sad shape”
   • “a sorry state of affairs”
   Synonymsdeplorabledistressinglamentablepitifulsad

3. 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”
   Synonymsgood-for-nothinggood-for-naughtmeritlessno-accountno-countno-good

4. causing dejection

   • “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”
   Synonymsbluedarkdingydisconsolatedismalgloomygrimdrabdreardreary