Hyphenation of sorry

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word sorry? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

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Definitions of sorry:

1.	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.	Bad Unfortunate My finances were in a deplorable state A lamentable decision Her clothes were in sad shape A sorry state of affairs
3.	Without merit A sorry horse A sorry excuse A lazy no-count
4.	Good-for-nothing goldbrick The car was a no-good piece of junk
5.	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

Synonyms of sorry:

adj	bad, unhappy
adj	pitying, sorry for, compassionate
adj	regretful
adj	contrite, remorseful, rueful, ruthful, penitent
adj	deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, bad
adj	dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, cheerless, uncheerful
adj	good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, worthless

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.