What is "sore" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does sore mean in English? Meaning of sore definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "sore" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "sore": an open skin infection

Noun

  • Meaning: an open skin infection
  • Synonyms: sore
  • Hyponyms: blain chancre fester gall suppurating sore
  • Hypernyms: infection
  • Meaning of "sore": hurting

    Adjective

  • Meaning: hurting
  • Example: the tender spot on his jaw
  • Synonyms: raw sensitive sore tender
  • Similar: painful
  • Meaning of "sore": causing misery or pain or distress

    Adjective

  • Meaning: causing misery or pain or distress
  • Example: it was a sore trial to him the painful process of growing up
  • Synonyms: afflictive painful sore
  • Similar: unpleasant
  • Meaning of "sore": roused to anger

    Adjective

  • Meaning: roused to anger
  • Example: stayed huffy a good while she gets mad when you wake her up so early mad at his friend sore over a remark
  • Synonyms: huffy mad sore
  • Similar: angry
  • Adjective: Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive. Her feet were sore from walking so far.Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation. Tillotson Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy.Tillotson Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy.Dire; distressing. The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.(informal) Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered. Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers.(obsolete) Criminal; wrong; evil. (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
  • Synonyms:

    aching, inflamed, uncomfortable, tender, sharp, painful, acute, burning, sensitive, raw, annoying, smarting, extreme, afflicted, burned, critical, distressing, hurtful, irritated, pained, severe, unpleasant, vexatious, hurting, bruised, abscessed, chafed, reddened, ulcerated, resentful, sensitive, pressing, upset, smarting, annoying, afflicted, aggrieved, annoyed, critical, distressing, indignant, irritated, pained, peeved, troubled, urgent, weighty, grieved, grieving, irked, stung, vexed,

    Antonyms:

    unimportant, pleasant, delighted, pleased, easy, painless, insensitive, good, well, happy, delighted, pleased, good, well, happy,

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