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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar

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sorry

/ˈsɒri/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈsɒri/

sorry

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: IPA vowel pattern
Ending: Final y vowel sound

sor - ry -> sorry

Myanmar meaning

(adj) ဝမ်းနည်းသော

Full entry

sorry /'sɒri;US 'sↄ:ri/ adj (-ier ,-iest )

၁။ ~ (to do sth/that…) ဝမ်းနည်းသော။ စိတ်မကောင်းသော။ We were very sorry to hear of your father's death. ❍ I'm sorry that you're leaving. I'm sorry to tell you that your application has not been successful.
၂။ ~ (for/about sth ) နောင်တရ[သော]။ (ပြုမှားမိသည်ကို) ရှက်[သော]။ Aren't you sorry for/about what you've done? ❍ If you say you're sorry we'll forget what happened.
၃။ (သဘောမတူ ကြောင်း၊ မလိုက်လျောနိုင်ကြောင်း စသည် ပြောလိုသည့်အခါ သုံးသောစကား)။ စိတ်မကောင်းပါဘူး။ ဝမ်းနည်းပါတယ်။ တောင်းပန်ပါတယ်။ I'm sorry, but I don't agree. ❍ I'm sorry I'm late. ❍ I'm sorry if I offended you. ❍ ‘Can you lend me some money?’ ‘I'm sorry, I can't. ’
၄။ (usu derog ) ဆိုးဆိုးရွားရွား။ a sorry sight ❍ The house was in a sorry state.
interj
၁။ (ခွင့်လွှတ်ရန် တောင်းပန်လိုသည့်အခါသုံးသော စကား)။ မတော်လို့ပါ။ ကန်တော့ကန်တော့။ Sorry, did I knock your elbow? ❍ Sorry I'm late.
၂။ (esp Brit ) (သဲသဲကွဲကွဲ မကြားလိုက်သဖြင့် ထပ်ပြောပေးပါရန် တောင်းပန်စကား)။ မကြားမိလိုက်လို့ပါ။ ‘My name's Jane Timms. ’ ‘Sorry—Jane who?’
❏ be/feel sorry for sb [IDM ]
၁။ သနားပါတယ်။ I feel sorry for anyone who has to drive in this sort of weather.
၂။ စိတ်မကောင်းဘူး။ သနားတယ်။ If he doesn't realize what he's done, then I'm sorry for him.

More examples

That’s the sorriest excuse I’ve ever heard.
[a sorry business/mess/state] : If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t be in this sorry mess.
What a sorry sight they were!
Tell your sister you’re sorry!
[sorry (that)] : I’m sorry I behaved in such a childish way.
[sorry for] : He wasn’t sorry for hitting the other boy.
[sorry about] : I’m sorry about your losing your job.
[sorry to hear (that)] : I am sorry to hear that your father died.
[sorry (that)] : I’m sorry you have decided to leave the company.
We’re sorry you weren’t happy with our service.
Don't you dare do that again, or you'll be sorry!

Synonyms

apologetic, regretful, remorseful, repentant, sad, unhappy, I beg your pardon, I'm sorry, abject, attritional, bad, bad luck, base, beggarly, cheap, commiserations, compunctious, conscience-stricken, contemptible, contrite, deplorable, despicable, despisable, disconsolate, disgraceful, dismal, distressed, distressing, excuse me, forgive me, forlorn, grieved, guilt-ridden, heartbroken, heavyhearted, inadequate, insignificant, mean, melancholy, melted, miserable, mournful, oh, oh-oh, oops-a-daisy, paltry, pardon me, pathetic, penitent, penitential, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, rueful, saddened, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, self-accusing, self-condemnatory, self-reproachful, shabby, shamefaced, shoddy, small, softened, sorrowful, touched, trifling, trivial, uh-oh, unimportant, vile, whoops, worthless, wretched

Antonyms

cheerful, fine, glad, good, happy, heartened, hopeful, joyful, nice, unremorseful, unsorry

Cross references

apologetic regretful remorseful repentant sad unhappy I beg your pardon I'm sorry abject attritional bad bad luck base beggarly cheap commiserations compunctious conscience-stricken contemptible contrite deplorable despicable despisable disconsolate disgraceful dismal distressed distressing

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