sorry!とは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsɒɹi/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈsɑɹi/
  • Homophone: sari
• (Ottawa Valley) IPA: /ˈsoɹi/
  • IPA: [ˈsɔɹɪ], [ˈsoːɹɪ]
• (Australia) IPA: /ˈsɔɹi/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈsɒɹi/, [ˈsɔ̟ɹi]
• (Scotland) IPA: /ˈsɔɾe/
• (Wales) IPA: /ˈsɒɾi/
• 韻: -ɒɹi

形容詞

sorry (comparative sorrier, superlative sorriest)

1. (of a person) Regretful or apologetic for one's actions.

   Synonyms: apologetic, compunctious, contrite, penitent, regretful, remorseful, repentant; see also Thesaurus:regretful, Thesaurus:remorseful

   I am sorry I stepped on your toes. It was an accident.

2. (of a person) Grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.

   Synonyms: heavy-hearted, melancholy, mournful; see also Thesaurus:sad

   I feel sorry for you, about your exam results.

   The President was sorry to hear that the Ambassador was leaving.

3. Poor, pitifully sad or regrettable.

   Synonyms: pathetic, pitiable; see also Thesaurus:pitiful

   The storm left his garden in a sorry state.

   • 1948, Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Part One, 1:

     ... often the only movement on the landscape is winter smoke winding out the chimney of some sorry-looking farmhouse ...

   • 1974 February 16, Jonathan Cross, “The Fag in the fifth row”, in Gay Community News‎, volume 1, number 34, page 5:

     That his rigid denial of the personhood of women should so completely and immediately win a contemporary Boston audience, is a sorry index.

4. Pathetic; contemptibly inadequate.

   Synonyms: deficient, insufficient; see also Thesaurus:inadequate

   Bob is a sorry excuse for a football player.

   • 2023 May 25, David Smith, “Failure to launch: Twitter glitches deal double blow to Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 August 2023:

     The sorry experience did little to suggest that Musk knows how to run a social media platform or that DeSantis is capable of governing a global superpower armed with nuclear weapons.

派生語

間投詞

sorry

1. Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow.

   Synonym: (slang, chiefly Britain) soz

   Sorry! I didn't see that you were on the phone.

   Sorry about yesterday. — No worries.

   Sorry I’m so late.

2. Said as a request to excuse one's unintentional behaviors.

   Synonym: excuse me

   Oops! Sorry!

3. Said as a request to pass somebody.

   Synonym: excuse me

   Sorry! Coming through!

4. Used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly.

   Synonyms: I beg your pardon?, I'm sorry?, say again, come again, (US) excuse me?; see also Thesaurus:say again

   Sorry? What was that? The phone cut out.

5. Used to correct oneself in speech.

   There are four—sorry, five—local branches of the store.

6. Used as a hedge.

   Sorry, but I don't care what you think.

使用する際の注意点

• The interjection is generally understood as a clipping of I'm sorry.
• A typically sarcastic use slows down the rhythm and stresses the final syllable, as /ˌsɒˈɹiːː/. This is often spelled as sorree or emphatically as something like sor-REE!! in print.

派生した語

名詞

sorry (plural sorries or sorrys)

1. The act of saying sorry; an apology.
   • 2007, Christopher Levan, Give Us This Day: Lenten Reflections on Baking Bread and Discipleship, page 107:

     The British would do it standing stock still, Latinos would dance their sorries, and Canadians would find a way to apologize on ice.

   • 2008, Lucy S. Danziger, Self Magazine's 15 Minutes to Your Best Self:

     So learn how to tailor your sorries to the sexes. Women tend to want an acknowledgment of what they're going through...

動詞

sorry (third-person singular simple present sorries, present participle sorrying, simple past and past participle sorried)

1. (intransitive, transitive, rare) To feel sorry (for someone).
   • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, Toronto, Ont.: Vintage Canada, →ISBN, page 302:

     Jus' that once I sorried for her. Souls cross the skies o' time, Abbess'd say, like clouds crossin' skies o' the world.

関連する語

• sorrow
• sorrowful

参照

• “sorry, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Further reading

• “sorry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “sorry”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

名詞

sorry

1. alternative form of sorre

語源 2

From 古期英語 sāriġ.

名詞

sorry

1. (Late ME) alternative form of sory