sorry in WordNet English dictionary

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"
   regretful  sorry  bad 
   
2. 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"
   blue  dark  dingy  disconsolate  dismal  gloomy  grim  sorry  drab  drear  dreary 
   
3. bad; unfortunate
   "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
   deplorable  distressing  lamentable  pitiful  sad  sorry 
   
4. 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"
   good-for-nothing  good-for-naught  meritless  no-account  no-count  no-good  sorry