soreness
noun
1 soreness
A pain that is felt (as when the area is touched).
synonyms: rawness, tenderness.
Roget 832:
discontent,
discontentment;
dissatisfaction;
dissent
etc.
489.
disappointment,
mortification;
cold comfort;
regret
etc.
833;
repining,
taking on
etc.
v.;
heart-burning,
heart-grief;
querulousness
etc.
(lamentation)
839;
hypercriticism.
inquietude,
vexation of spirit,
soreness;
worry,
concern,
fear
etc.
860.
[person who is discontented]
malcontent,
grumbler,
growler,
croaker,
dissident,
dissenter,
laudator temporis acti [Lat.];
censurer,
complainer,
fault-finder,
murmerer†.
cave of Adullam†,
indignation meeting,
winter of our discontent"
[Henry VI];
with what I most enjoy contented least"
[Shakespeare].
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2 soreness
An uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress.
synonyms: discomfort, irritation.
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.
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Roget 900:
resentment,
displeasure,
animosity,
anger,
wrath,
indignation;
exasperation,
bitter resentment,
wrathful indignation.
pique,
umbrage,
huff,
miff,
soreness,
dudgeon,
acerbity,
virulence,
bitterness,
acrimony,
asperity,
spleen,
gall;
heart-burning,
heart-swelling;
rankling.
ill humor,
bad humor,
ill temper,
bad temper;
irascibility
etc.
901;
ill blood
etc.
(hate)
898;
revenge
etc.
919.
excitement,
irritation;
warmth,
bile,
choler,
ire,
fume,
pucker,
dander,
ferment,
ebullition;
towering passion,
acharnement [Fr.],
angry mood,
taking,
pet,
tiff,
passion,
fit,
tantrums.
burst,
explosion,
paroxysm,
storm,
rage,
fury,
desperation;
violence
etc.
173;
fire and fury;
vials of wrath;
gnashing of teeth,
hot blood,
high words.
scowl
etc.
895;
sulks
etc.
901.1.
[Cause of umbrage]
affront,
provocation,
offense;
indignity
etc.
(insult)
929;
grudge,
crow to pluck,
bone to pick,
sore subject,
casus belli [Lat.];
ill turn,
outrage.
Furies,
Eumenides.
buffet,
slap in the face,
box on the ear,
rap on the knuckles.
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Dutch: storen, onbehagen veroorzaken, hinderen
Moby thesaurus: a transient madness, acerbity, acid, acidity, acidulousness, acrimony, algesia, allergy, anaphylaxis, anger, angriness, animosity, animus, asperity, bad blood, bile, bitter feeling, bitter resentment, bitterness, bitterness of spirit, causticity, choler, considerateness, delicacy, empathy, enragement, exquisiteness, festering, feud, fineness, gall, gnashing of teeth, grapes of wrath, hard feelings, heartburning, heat, hyperesthesia, hyperpathia, hypersensitivity, identification, ill blood, ill feeling, ill will, inflammation, infuriation, irateness, ire, irritability, irritation, mad, nervousness, oversensibility, oversensitiveness, overtenderness, passibility, perceptiveness, perceptivity, photophobia, prickliness, rancor, rankling, responsiveness, saeva indignatio, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensitization, slow burn, sore, sore spot, sourness, spleen, supersensitivity, sympathy, tact, tactfulness, tenderness, tetchiness, thin skin, ticklishness, touchiness, vendetta, venom, vials of wrath, virulence, vitriol, wrath, wrathfulness ... show more.
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