English Explanatory Dictionary

sore

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
  2. Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
  3. Dire; distressing.
  4. Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
  5. Criminal; wrong; evil.
adv
  1. Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).
  2. Sorely.
noun
  1. An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
  2. Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
verb
  1. To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait.
  2. To grow sores; to be beset with skin lesions.
noun
  1. A young hawk or falcon in its first year.
  2. A young buck in its fourth year.
noun
  1. Acronym of small off-road engine.

Pronunciation

sô /sɔː/ sôr /soɹ/ sōr /so(ː)ɹ/ /soə/ en-us-sore.ogg

Word forms

sore sorer sorest sores soring sored

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 *seh₂iro-, enlargement of *seh₂y- (“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

aching smarting achesome achy raw hurt hurty griefful pained painfilled painful smartful sore suffering tender tormented delicate fragile tetchy touchy irked ratty annoyed angry aggravated agitated bothered exasperated frustrated irritable irritated peeved pestered pissy shitty tired vexed bee in one's bonnet have it in for hot and bothered hold a grudge brassed off browned off cheesed off peed off pissed off PO'd teed off ticked off apoplectic bad-tempered berserk big mad blood-boiling boiling mad butthurt choleric cranky cross enraged

Related words

blister lesion ulcer

Derived words

like a bear with a sore head mad as a bear with a sore head sight for sore eyes sorance sore boob means more boob sore eyes sorehead soreheaded sore loser sorely soreness sore point sore throat sore thumb sore-thumbish sore winner sorrel stand out like a sore thumb stick out like a sore thumb unsore bedsore buttsore canker sore cold sore desert sore earsore eyesore footsore fuck sore heartsore humpsore mouthsore oriental sore pressure sore running sore saddlesore saddle sore veld sore veldt sore weak sore soring
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