Definition of SORE

sore

Plural: sores

Noun

  • A wound or painful area on the body.
  • an open skin infection
  • An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
  • Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
  • A young hawk or falcon in its first year.
  • A young buck in its fourth year.

Adjective Satellite

  • hurting
  • causing misery or pain or distress
    • "it was a sore trial to him"
  • roused to anger; - Mark Twain
    • "sore over a remark"

Adj

  • Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
  • Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
  • Dire; distressing.
  • Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
  • Criminal; wrong; evil.

Adv

  • Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).
  • Sorely.

Verb

  • To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait.

Adjective

  • Painfully sensitive to the touch; feeling discomfort or irritation.

Examples

  • After a five-hour Words With Friends marathon, her eyes were SORE from staring at the screen.
  • He touched the SORE spot on the board, realizing his opponent had blocked all his vowel options.
  • Her feet were sore from walking so far.
  • Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers.
  • The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.
  • They put ointment and a bandage on the sore.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English sor, from Old English sār (“ache, wound”, noun) and sār (“painful, grievous”, adjective), from Proto-West Germanic *sair, from Proto-Germanic *sairaz (adjective) from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂eyro-, enlargement of *sh₂ey- (“to be fierce, afflict”).
See also Dutch zeer (“sore, ache”), Danish sår (“wound”), German sehr (“very”); also Hittite [script needed] (sāwar, “anger”), Welsh hoed (“pain”), Ancient Greek αἱμωδία (haimōdía, “sensation of having teeth on edge”).

Synonyms

afflictive, huffy, mad, painful, raw, sensitive, tender, PO'd, achesome, aching, achy, aggravated, agitated, angry, annoyed, apoplectic, bad-tempered, bee in one's bonnet, berserk, big mad, blood-boiling, boiling mad, bothered, brassed off, browned off, cheesed off, choleric, cross, delicate, enraged, exasperated, fit to be tied, fragile, frustrated, fuming, furibund, furious, fury, glimflashy, griefful, have it in for, hold a grudge, hopping mad, hot and bothered, hurt, hurty, ill-natured, incensed, infuriated, irate, ired, ireful, irked, irritable, irritated, little mad, livid, mad as a bear with a sore head, p'd off, pained, painfilled, pathetic, peed off, peeved, pestered, pissed, pissed off, pissy, raging, ratty, ready to be tied, screwfaced, seething, shitty, smartful, smarting, sore, spitting chips, splenetic, steaming, suffering, teed off, tetchy, ticked off, tired, tormented, touchy, up on one's ear, vexed, waxy, wode, wrathful, wroth, zowerswopped

Scrabble Score: 4

sore: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
sore: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sore: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 4

sore: valid Words With Friends Word