sore

Meaning

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. (archaic, not-comparable) Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).
2. (not-comparable) 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.

Synonyms

wound

ulcer

painful

boil

pain

ache

abscess

hurt

aching

cut

tender

injury

scab

sensitive

sick

🤢

pimple

sour

bruise

canker

wounded

tumor

pustule

raw

mad

huffy

ill

🤢

bitter

cross

tart

feel tired

ulceration

carbuncle

surly

fester

scar

angry

😠

swelling

worn out

paint

afflictive

no good

🙅

lesion

inflammation

mark

hurtful

heavy

hole

🕳️

fistula

goiter

acid

Translations

plaie

bouton

llaga

piaga

dolorido

chaga

blessure

herida

ferida

ulcère

weh

ulcera

wund

doloroso

ferita

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɔː/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: sor

Inherited from Old English: sār

Cognate with Dutch: zeer

Cognate with Danish: sår

Cognate with German: sehr

Cognate with Hittite:

Cognate with Welsh: hoed

Cognate with Ancient Greek: αἱμωδία

Cognate with French: 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”).