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; aching etc. v.; smart; shoot, shooting; twinge, twitch, gripe, headache, stomach ache, heartburn, angina, angina pectoris [Lat.]; hurt, cut; sore, soreness; discomfort, malaise; cephalalgia [Med.], earache, gout, ischiagra†, lumbago, neuralgia, odontalgia†, otalgia†, podagra†, rheumatism, sciatica; tic douloureux [Fr.], toothache, tormina†, torticollis†. spasm, cramp; nightmare, ephialtes†; crick, stitch; thrill, convulsion, throe; throb etc. (agitation) 315; pang; colic; kink. sharp pain, piercing pain, throbbing pain, shooting pain, sting, gnawing pain, burning pain; excruciating pain. anguish, agony; torment, torture; rack; cruciation†, crucifixion; martyrdom, toad under a harrow, vivisection. ... 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; complaint, disorder, malady; distemper, distemperature†. visitation, attack, seizure, stroke, fit. delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy†; cachexia [Med.], atrophy, marasmus†; indigestion, dyspepsia; decay etc. (deterioration) 659; decline, consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration. taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity†, infestation; epidemic, pandemic, endemic, epizootic; murrain, plague, pestilence, pox. sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple, wen etc. (swelling) 250; carbuncle, gathering, imposthume†, peccant humor, issue; rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus†, sphacelation†, leprosy; eruption, rash, breaking out. fever, temperature, calenture†; inflammation. ague, angina pectoris [Lat.], appendicitis; Asiatic cholera†, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia†, blennorrhoea†; blood poisoning, bloodstroke†, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever†, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy [Med.]; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele [Med.], canker rash, cardialgia [Med.], carditis [Med.], endocarditis [Med.]; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche†, dartre [Fr.]; enanthem†, enanthema†; erysipelas; exanthem†, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps†, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis†, pneumonia, psora†, pyaemia†, pyrosis [Med.], quinsy, rachitis†, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma†, syntexis†, tetanus, tetter†, tonsillitis, tonsilitis†, tracheocele [Med.], trachoma, trismus [Med.], varicella [Med.], varicosis [Med.], variola [Med.], water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. fatal disease etc. (hopeless) 859; dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough; general breaking up, break up of the system. [Disease of mind] idiocy etc. 499; insanity etc. 503. martyr to disease; cripple; the halt the lame and the blind;" valetudinary†, valetudinarian; invalid, patient, case; sickroom, sick-chamber. [Science of disease] pathology, etiology, nosology†. [Veterinary] anthrax, bighead; blackleg, blackquarter†; cattle plague, glanders†, mange, scrapie, milk sickness; heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms; quarter-evil, quarter-ill; rinderpest. [disease-causing agents] virus, bacterium, bacteria. [types of viruses] DNA virus; RNA virus. [RNA viruses] rhinovirus; rhabdovirus; picornavirus. [DNA viruses] herpesvirus; cytomegalovirus, CMV; human immunodefficiency virus, HIV. ... show more
is a specific kind of: infection.
is a broader term that covers: blain | chancre | fester, suppurating sore | gall.
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. 830; aching, griped, sore etc. (physical pain) 378; on the rack, in limbo; between hawk and buzzard. uncomfortable, uneasy; ill at ease; in a taking, in a way; disturbed; discontented etc. 832; out of humor etc. 901.1; weary etc. 841. heavy laden, stricken, crushed, a prey to, victimized, ill-used. unfortunate etc. (hapless) 735; to be pitied, doomed, devoted, accursed, undone, lost, stranded; fey. unhappy, infelicitous, poor, wretched, miserable, woe-begone; cheerless etc. (dejected) 837; careworn. concerned, sorry; sorrowing, sorrowful; cut up, chagrined, horrified, horror-stricken; in grief, plunged in grief, a prey to grief etc. n.; in tears etc. (lamenting) 839; steeped to the lips in misery; heart-stricken, heart-broken, heart-scalded; broken-hearted; in despair etc. 859. ... show more
Roget 832: discontented; dissatisfied etc. v.; unsatisfied, ungratified; dissident; dissentient etc. 489; malcontent, malcontented, exigent, exacting, hypercritical. repining etc. v.; regretful etc. 833; down in the mouth etc. (dejected) 837. in high dudgeon, in a fume, in the sulks, in the dumps, in bad humor; glum, sulky; sour as a crab; soured, sore; out of humor, out of temper. disappointing etc. v.; unsatisfactory. frustrated (failure) 732. ... show more
Roget 900: angry, wrath, irate; ireful, wrathful; cross etc. (irascible) 901; Achillean†; sulky, etc. 901.1; bitter, virulent; acrimonious etc. (discourteous) etc. 895; violent etc. 173. warm, burning; boiling, boiling over; fuming, raging; foaming, foaming at the mouth; convulsed with rage. offended etc. v.; waxy, acharne; wrought, worked up; indignant, hurt, sore; set against. fierce, wild, rageful†, furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate, rabid, savage; relentless etc. 919. flushed with anger, flushed with rage; in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way; on one's high ropes, up in arms; in high dudgeon. ... show more
Roget 378: in pain etc. n., in a state of pain; pained etc. v.; gouty, podagric†, torminous†. painful; aching etc. v.; sore, raw. 2. Special Sensation (1) Touch ... show more
is similar to: painful.
derivation: sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity | rawness, soreness, tenderness.
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, displeasing; disagreeable, unpalatable, bitter, distasteful; uninviting; unwelcome; undesirable, undesired; obnoxious; unacceptable, unpopular, thankless. unsatisfactory, untoward, unlucky, uncomfortable. distressing; afflicting, afflictive; joyless, cheerless, comfortless; dismal, disheartening; depressing, depressive; dreary, melancholy, grievous, piteous; woeful, rueful, mournful, deplorable, pitiable, lamentable; sad, affecting, touching, pathetic. irritating, provoking, stinging, annoying, aggravating, mortifying, galling; unaccommodating, invidious, vexatious; troublesome, tiresome, irksome, wearisome; plaguing, plaguy†; awkward. importunate; teasing, pestering, bothering, harassing, worrying, tormenting, carking. intolerable, insufferable, insupportable; unbearable, unendurable; past bearing; not to be borne, not to be endured; more than flesh and blood can bear; enough to drive one mad, enough to provoke a saint, enough to make a parson swear, enough to gag a maggot. shocking, terrific, grim, appalling, crushing; dreadful, fearful, frightful; thrilling, tremendous, dire; heart-breaking, heart-rending, heart-wounding, heart-corroding, heart-sickening; harrowing, rending. odious, hateful, execrable, repulsive, repellent, abhorrent; horrid, horrible, horrific, horrifying; offensive. nauseous, nauseating; disgusting, sickening, revolting; nasty; loathsome, loathful†; fulsome; vile etc. (bad) 649; hideous etc. 846. sharp, acute, sore, severe, grave, hard, harsh, cruel, biting, caustic; cutting, corroding, consuming, racking, excruciating, searching, grinding, grating, agonizing; envenomed; catheretic†, pyrotic [Med.]. ruinous, disastrous, calamitous, tragical; desolating, withering; burdensome, onerous, oppressive; cumbrous, cumbersome. ... show more
is similar to: unpleasant.
derivation: pain, painfulness | discomfort, irritation, soreness | afflict, smite | afflict.
3 sore
Roused to anger:
— Sore over a remark.
is similar to: angry.
domain usage: colloquialism.
derivation: discomfort, irritation, soreness | fury, madness, rage | huffiness | huff, miff, seeing red.
Moby 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 ... show more.
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