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  • 41 sorry

    1. a огорчённый; сожалеющий

    we feel deeply sorry for him — нам очень жаль его; мы глубоко сочувствуем ему

    sorry!, so sorry! — виноват!, извините!, простите!

    2. a жалкий, несчастный
    3. a печальный, мрачный

    a slum is a sorry place — трущобы — унылое место

    Синонимический ряд:
    1. deplorable (adj.) deplorable; miserable; pitiful; wretched
    2. disappointing (adj.) disappointing; disheartening; dissatisfying; unlucky
    3. mean (adj.) abhorrent; abject; bad; base; cheap; contemptible; despicable; despisable; detestable; disgusting; filthy; foul; loathsome; low; mean; nasty; obnoxious; odious; pitiable; reprehensible; repugnant; rotten; scummy; scurvy; shabby; vile
    4. pitying (adj.) pitying; sorrowing; sympathetic; touching
    5. remorseful (adj.) apologetic; attritional; compunctious; contrite; penitent; penitential; regretful; remorseful; repentant
    6. unhappy (adj.) depressed; dismal; doleful; grieved; heavyhearted; melancholy; mournful; sad; saddened; sorrowful; unhappy
    7. unimportant (adj.) beggarly; insignificant; small; stunted; trivial; unimportant
    Антонимический ряд:
    delighted; fine; glad; grand; gratified; handsome; happy; pleased; unrepentant

    English-Russian base dictionary > sorry

См. также в других словарях:

  • Compunctious — Com*punc tious, a. Of the nature of compunction; caused by conscience; attended with, or causing, compunction. [1913 Webster] That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose. Shak. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • compunctious — index blameful, contrite, penitent, remorseful, repentant Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • compunctious — c.1600, from stem of COMPUNCTION (Cf. compunction) + OUS (Cf. ous) …   Etymology dictionary

  • compunctious — compunction ► NOUN ▪ a feeling of guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows wrongdoing: he felt no compunction in letting her worry. DERIVATIVES compunctious adjective. ORIGIN Latin, from compungere prick sharply …   English terms dictionary

  • compunctious — adjective see compunction …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • compunctious — compunctiously, adv. /keuhm pungk sheuhs/, adj. causing or feeling compunction; regretful. [1595 1605; COMPUNCT(ION) + IOUS] * * * …   Universalium

  • compunctious — adjective Pertaining to compunctions, scruples, feelings of guilt. Come, you spirits …   Wiktionary

  • compunctious — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Feeling or expressing regret for one s sins or misdeeds: contrite, penitent, penitential, regretful, remorseful, repentant, sorry. See REGRET …   English dictionary for students

  • compunctious — adj. regretful; causing compunction …   English contemporary dictionary

  • compunctious — a. Repentant, penitent, contrite, remorseful, sorrowful, conscience stinging, conscience stung …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • compunctious — adj 1. remorseful, contrite, regretful, penitent, repentant, penitential; sorrowful, grieved, sad, mournful, doleful, rueful, sorry, apologetic; self reproaching, self reproving, self blaming, self accusing, self condemning, conscience stricken,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

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