1. (

• 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" ;

2. (

• 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" ;

3. (

• 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" ;

4. (

• 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" ;