Sore

Adjective

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

Derived terms

 * sorely, soreness
 * sore point

Adverb

 * 1) Very, excessively, extremely.
 * They were sore afraid.
 * 1) Sorely.
 * 2) * 1919, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jungle Tales of Tarzan
 * ...[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



 * 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
sor, from sār (noun) 'ache, wound' and sār (adj.) 'painful, grievous', from  (noun) (compare Dutch zeer 'sore, ache', Danish sår 'wound'), and *sairaz (adj.) 'sore' (compare German sehr: 'very'), from  'to be fierce, afflict' (compare  sāwar 'anger',  hoed 'pain', Latin saevus: 'wild, fierce', Tocharian saiwe 'itch', Latvian sievs, sīvs 'sharp, biting', Ancient Greek aimōdía 'toothache').

Pronunciation

 * , saw
 * , saw

Adjective

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 酸
 * Finnish: kipeä, arka
 * French:
 * German:, , ,
 * Irish:
 * Italian: doloroso, dolorante, infiammato, ...fa male (...is sore)


 * Old English:
 * Portuguese:
 * Scots: sair
 * Scottish Gaelic: goirt
 * Spanish: dolorido
 * Swedish: öm


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 討厭, 讨厌, 厭煩, 厌烦


 * Finnish: vihainen, hapan
 * German:


 * Finnish: kipeä

Noun

 * Finnish: haava, tulehdus, ruhje
 * French:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Latin:
 * Navajo:


 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: creuchd, lot , puthar
 * Spanish:

Anagrams

 * EROS, Eros, eros, ores, orse, roes, Rose, rose, rosé

Noun
sore


 * 1) afternoon

Noun

 * 1) sun

Etymology
sol:

Pronoun

 * 1) that one