sore

Meaning

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.

wound

feel tired

skin disease

sore spot

lacerated wound

sour-tasting

infected cut

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɔː/

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”).