Sore

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English

Adjective

Sore (comparative sorer, superlative sorest)

  1. Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
    Her feet were sore from walking so far.
  2. Feeling animosity towards; annoyed or angered.
    Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers.
  3. Dire; distressing.
    The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.

Derived terms

Adverb

Sore (comparative more Sore, superlative most Sore)

  1. Very, excessively, extremely.
    They were sore afraid.
  2. Sorely.
    • 1919, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jungle Tales of Tarzan [1]
      ...[they] were often sore pressed to follow the trail at all, and at best were so delayed that in the afternoon of the second day, they still had not overhauled the fugitive.

Noun

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Sores
Sore (plural Sores)
  1. An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
    They put ointment and a bandage on the sore.

Adjectives for Sore

swollen; embossed; inward; festering; ever-fretting; raw; horrid.

Thesaurus

abrasion, abscess, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, ache, aching, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acute, affecting, afflictive, aggrieved, agonizing, ague, algesia, algetic, anemia, angered, angry, ankylosis, annoyed, anoxia, antagonistic, antipathetic, apnea, aposteme, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, awkward, backache, bed sore, belligerent, bitter, blain, bleak, bleb, bleeding, blemish, blennorhea, blister, blow, boil, break, browned-off, bruise, bubo, bulla, bunion, burdensome, burn, burning, cachexia, cachexy, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, caustic, chafe, chafed, chancre, chancroid, check, cheerless, chilblain, chill, chills, chip, choleric, clashing, cold sore, colic, colliding, comfortless, concussion, conflicting, constipation, convulsion, coughing, crack, crackle, cramp, craze, critical, cross, cut, cyanosis, damage, danger, delicate, deplorable, depressing, depressive, desperate, despiteful, diarrhea, difficulty, dire, discomforting, dismal, dismaying, distress, distressful, distressing, dizziness, dolor, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dreary, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaciation, embarrassing, embittered, eschar, extreme, fainting, fatigue, felon, fester, festering, fever, fever blister, fibrillation, fierce, fiery, fistula, flash burn, flux, fracture, fray, frazzle, full of hate, furuncle, furunculus, gall, galled, gash, gathering, grief, grievous, growth, gumboil, harrowing, hateful, heavy, hemorrhage, hemorrhoids, high blood pressure, hostile, hurt, hurtful, hurting, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, incensed, incision, indigestion, indignant, infection, inflamed, inflammation, injury, insomnia, irate, ireful, irked, irritated, irritation, itching, jaundice, joyless, kibe, labored breathing, laceration, lamentable, lesion, livid, low blood pressure, lumbago, mad, malevolent, malicious, malignant, marasmus, mortal wound, mournful, moving, mutilation, nasal discharge, nasty blow, nausea, necrosis, onerous, oppressive, pain, painful, pang, papula, papule, paralysis, paronychia, parulis, passion, pathetic, peeved, petechia, piles, pimple, pissed, pissed-off, piteous, pitiable, pock, poignant, polyp, pressing, prickly, pruritus, puncture, pustule, quarrelsome, rancorous, rankled, rankling, rash, raw, rawness, red, regrettable, rent, repugnant, resentful, resenting, rheum, riled up, rip, rising, rueful, run, rupture, sad, saddening, scab, scald, sclerosis, scorch, scrape, scratch, scuff, second-degree burn, seizure, sensitive, sensitiveness, serious, set against, severe, sharp, shock, skin eruption, slash, smarting, sneezing, soft chancre, sore spot, soreness, sorrowful, spasm, spiteful, splenetic, stab, stab wound, stewing, stigma, stinging, stress, stress of life, stroke, sty, suffering, suppuration, swelling, tabes, tachycardia, tear, tender, tender spot, tenderness, third-degree burn, thorny, throes, ticked off, ticklish, tingling, touching, touchy, trauma, trouble, troublesome, tubercle, tumor, ulcer, ulceration, uncomfortable, upset, upset stomach, urgent, venomous, vertigo, vexed, virulent, vitriolic, vomiting, wale, wasting, welt, wheal, whelk, whitlow, woebegone, woeful, worked up, wound, wounds immedicable, wrathful, wrathy, wrench, wretched, wroth, wrought-up

Etymology

Middle English sor, from Old English sār (noun) 'ache, wound' and sār (adj.) 'painful, grievous', from Proto-Germanic *sairan (noun) (compare Dutch zeer 'sore, ache', Danish sår 'wound'), and *sairaz (adj.) 'sore' (compare German sehr 'very'), from Proto-Indo-European *seHi- 'to be fierce, afflict' (compare Hittite sāwar 'anger', Welsh hoed 'pain', Latin saevus 'wild, fierce', Tocharian saiwe 'itch', Latvian sievs, sīvs 'sharp, biting', Ancient Greek aimōdía 'toothache').

Pronunciation

Translations

Adjective

causing pain
annoyed
dire, distressing

Noun

injured, infected, inflamed, or diseased patch of skin

See also

Anagrams

Indonesian

Noun

sore

  1. afternoon

Istro-Romanian

Noun

Sore m. (definite singular sorele, plural sori)

  1. sun

Etymology

Latin sōl

Japanese

Pronoun

Sore (kanji 其れ, hiragana それ)

  1. that one

See also

Japanese demonstratives (edit)
ko- so- a- do-
Object これ それ あれ どれ
Determiner この その あの どの
Kind こんな そんな あんな どんな
Place ここ そこ あそこ* どこ
Direction こちら そちら あちら どちら
こっち そっち あっち どっち
Human こいつ そいつ あいつ どいつ
Manner こう そう ああ どう
* irregular

Notes

  • The hiragana spelling (それ) is preferred to the kanji spelling (其れ), which is rarely used.
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