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Repentant vs. Sorry — What's the Difference?

Repentant vs. Sorry — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Repentant and Sorry

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Repentant

Characterized by or demonstrating repentance; penitent.

Sorry

Feeling or expressing sorrow
We're sorry to hear that you're leaving so soon.

Repentant

Feeling or showing sorrow for wrongdoing.

Sorry

Feeling or expressing sympathy or pity
She felt sorry for the rain-soaked cat.

Repentant

One who repents; a penitent.
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Sorry

Feeling or expressing regret, especially for a misdeed or mistake
He said he was sorry for breaking the window. I'm sorry I yelled at you.

Repentant

Penitent; sorry for sin.
Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood.

Sorry

Worthless or inferior; paltry
A sorry excuse.

Repentant

Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as, repentant tears; repentant ashes.

Sorry

Causing sorrow, grief, or misfortune; grievous
A sorry development.

Repentant

One who repents, especially one who repents of sin; a penitent.

Sorry

Used to express apology.

Repentant

Feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds

Sorry

Used to express interrogation, especially as a request for a person to say something again.

Sorry

(of a person) Regretful or apologetic for one's actions.
I am sorry I stepped on your toes. It was an accident.

Sorry

(of a person) Grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
I am sorry for your loss.
The President was sorry to hear that the Ambassador was leaving.

Sorry

Poor, pitifully sad or regrettable.
The storm left his garden in a sorry state.

Sorry

Pathetic; contemptibly inadequate.
Bob is a sorry excuse for a football player.

Sorry

The act of saying sorry; an apology.

Sorry

Grieved for the loss of some good; pained for some evil; feeling regret; - now generally used to express light grief or affliction, but formerly often used to express deeper feeling.
Ye were made sorry after a godly manner.
I am sorry for thee, friend; 't is the duke's pleasure.
She entered, were he lief or sorry.

Sorry

Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.
All full of chirking was this sorry place.

Sorry

Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse.
Cheeks of sorry grain will serve.
Good fruit will sometimes grow on a sorry tree.

Sorry

Keenly sorry or regretful;
Felt bad about letting the team down
Was sorry that she had treated him so badly
Felt bad about breaking the vase

Sorry

Feeling or expressing sorrow or pity;
A pitying observer threw his coat around her shoulders
Let him perish without a pitying thought of ours wasted upon him

Sorry

Having 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

Sorry

Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses

Sorry

Bad; unfortunate;
My finances were in a deplorable state
A lamentable decision
Her clothes were in sad shape
A sorry state of affairs

Sorry

Depressing in character or appearance;
Drove through dingy streets
The dismal prison twilight
Drab old buildings
A dreary mining town
Gloomy tenements
Sorry routine that follows on the heels of death

Sorry

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

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