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sore

noun

1 sore

An open skin infection.

Roget 378: pain; suffering, sufferance, suffrance; bodily pain, physical pain, bodily suffering, physical suffering, body pain; mental suffering etc. 828; dolour, ache; ... show more

Roget 655: disease; illness, sickness etc. adj.; ailing &c.; all the ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; ... show more

Dutch: zere plek

adjective

1 sore

Hurting.

synonyms: raw, sensitive, tender.

Roget 828: in pain, in a state of pain, full of pain etc. n.; suffering etc. v.; pained, afflicted, worried, displeased etc. ... show more

Roget 832: discontented; dissatisfied etc. v.; unsatisfied, ungratified; dissident; dissentient etc. 489; malcontent, malcontented, exigent, exacting, ... show more

Roget 900: angry, wrath, irate; ireful, wrathful; cross etc. (irascible) 901; Achillean; sulky, etc. 901.1; bitter, ... show more

Roget 378: in pain etc. n., in a state of pain; pained etc. v.; gouty, podagric, torminous.    painful; aching etc. v.; ... show more

2 sore

Causing misery or pain or distress:
— It was a sore trial to him.

synonyms: afflictive, painful.

Roget 830: causing pain, hurting etc. v.; hurtful etc. (bad) 649; painful; dolorific, dolorous; unpleasant; unpleasing, ... show more

3 sore

Roused to anger:
— Sore over a remark.

synonyms: huffy, mad.


Moby thesaurus: abrasion, abscess, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, ache, aching, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acute, affecting, afflictive, aggrieved, agonizing, ague, algesia ... show more.

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