sore

Signification (English)

Adj

1. Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
2. Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
3. Dire; distressing.
4. (informal) Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
5. (obsolete) 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

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

Noun

1. A young hawk or falcon in its first year.
2. A young buck in its fourth year.

Concepts

plaie

bouton

blessure

ulcère

douloureux

dartre

pénible

enflammé

sensible

irrité

susceptible

tristesse

désespérant

endolori

grandement

dermatose

dommage

douleur

en colère

😠

fou

furoncle

ampoule

peiné

souci

Synonyms

wound

ulcer

painful

boil

pain

ache

hurt

abscess

aching

injury

tender

cut

scab

pimple

sick

🤢

sensitive

wounded

canker

sour

bruise

mad

bitter

pustule

raw

ill

🤢

tumor

huffy

heavy

ulceration

cross

hole

🕳️

hurtful

worn out

inflamed

cancer

♋

inflammation

afflictive

carbuncle

lesion

fistula

mark

angry

😠

goiter

acid

fester

no good

🙅

surly

swelling

tart

scar

hard

feel tired

paint

minus

miserable

morose

mousy

oppressively

peaked

peeved

pissed off

plague

poorly

protuberance

pusillanimous

riled

saddening

scourge

seriously

severely

sheepish

shrewd

sickly

sickness

skin disease

smart

snappy

soft

soiled

sorely

sore spot

spoiled

stingy

suffer

sulky

sullen

timid

timorous

tough

troublesome

unadventurous

vinegary

vixenish

wart

welt

wheal

blate

contused

vinegarish

grief

lacerated wound

roiled

snorty

sour-tasting

infected cut

acerb

acerbic

achingly

achy

acidic

agony

arduous

bad

👎

big

black and blue

bleak

blister

bruised

bruising

bump

challenging

chancre

chickenhearted

contusion

damaging

dangerously

deeply

defect

depressing

dermatitis

diarrhea

diseased

dismal

distress

distressing

doleful

erosion

exacting

excoriation

faint

faint-hearted

formidable

fretful

gash

grievous

grumpy

het up

hurting

impetigo

infected

infection

injurious

intensely

irritated

laboriously

laceration

lump

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/sɔː/

Étymologie (English)

Inherited from moyen anglais: sor

Inherited from ancien anglais: sār

Cognate with néerlandais: zeer

Cognate with danois: sår

Cognate with allemand: sehr

Cognate with hittite:

Cognate with gallois: hoed

Cognate with grec ancien: αἱμωδία

Cognate with français: saur

In summary

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”).