Adjective

• S: (adj) regretful, sorry, bad (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"
• S: (adj) deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry (bad; unfortunate) "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
• S: (adj) good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry (without merit; of little or no value or use) "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no-good piece of junk"
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• S: (adj) blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary (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"