"sorrily" meaning in English

See sorrily in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

Forms: more sorrily [comparative], most sorrily [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English soryly, from Old English sāriġlīċ; equivalent to sorry + -ly. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|soryly}} Middle English soryly, {{inh|en|ang|sāriġlīċ}} Old English sāriġlīċ, {{suffix|en|sorry|ly}} sorry + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv}} sorrily (comparative more sorrily, superlative most sorrily)
  1. In a sorry manner; poorly.
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "soryly"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English soryly",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "sāriġlīċ"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English sāriġlīċ",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sorry",
        "3": "ly"
      },
      "expansion": "sorry + -ly",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English soryly, from Old English sāriġlīċ; equivalent to sorry + -ly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more sorrily",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most sorrily",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sorrily (comparative more sorrily, superlative most sorrily)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ly",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The New Arcadia",
          "ref": "a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Thy pipe, O Pan, shall help, though I sing sorrily.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a sorry manner; poorly."
      ],
      "id": "en-sorrily-en-adv-SYWA7CYj",
      "links": [
        [
          "sorry",
          "sorry"
        ],
        [
          "poor",
          "poor"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sorrily"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "soryly"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English soryly",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "sāriġlīċ"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English sāriġlīċ",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sorry",
        "3": "ly"
      },
      "expansion": "sorry + -ly",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English soryly, from Old English sāriġlīċ; equivalent to sorry + -ly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more sorrily",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most sorrily",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sorrily (comparative more sorrily, superlative most sorrily)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adverbs",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms derived from Middle English",
        "English terms derived from Old English",
        "English terms inherited from Middle English",
        "English terms inherited from Old English",
        "English terms suffixed with -ly",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The New Arcadia",
          "ref": "a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Thy pipe, O Pan, shall help, though I sing sorrily.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a sorry manner; poorly."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sorry",
          "sorry"
        ],
        [
          "poor",
          "poor"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sorrily"
}

Download raw JSONL data for sorrily meaning in English (1.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.