sore

English

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Etymology

Middle English sor, from Old English sār (noun) 'ache, wound' and sār (adj.) 'painful, grievous', from Proto-Germanic *sairan (noun) (compare Dutch zeer 'sore, ache', Danish sår 'wound'), and *sairaz (adj.) 'sore' (compare German sehr 'very'), from pre-Germanic *sh₂ei-ro-, enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ei- 'to be fierce, afflict' (compare Hittite sāwar 'anger', Welsh hoed 'pain', Ancient Greek aimōdía 'toothache').

Pronunciation

• enPR: sô(r), IPA: /sɔː(ɹ)/, SAMPA: /sO:(r)/
• Homophone: soar, saw (in non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)

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Adjective

sore (comparative sorer, superlative sorest)

1. Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.

   Her feet were sore from walking so far.

2. Feeling animosity towards; annoyed or angered.

   Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers.

3. Dire; distressing.

   The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.

Derived terms

Terms derived from sore (adj.)

sight for sore eyes sorely

soreness

sore point

Translations

causing pain

Bulgarian: болезнен (bg) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 酸 (zh) (suān) Croatian: bolan (hr) m. Finnish: kipeä (fi), arka (fi) French: douloureux (fr) German: wund (de), weh (de), schlimm (de), entzündet (de)

Irish: tinn (ga) Italian: doloroso, dolorante, infiammato, ...fa male (...is sore) Old English: wund (ang) Portuguese: doloroso (pt) m. Scots: sair Scottish Gaelic: goirt Spanish: dolorido (es) Swedish: öm (sv) c.

annoyed

Bulgarian: раздразнен (bg) m., ядосан (bg) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 討厭 (zh), 讨厌 (zh) (tǎoyàn), 厭煩 (zh), 厌烦 (zh) (yànfán)

Finnish: vihainen (fi), hapan (fi) German: sauer (de)

dire, distressing

Bulgarian: отчаян (bg) m.

Finnish: kipeä (fi)

Adverb

sore (comparative more sore, superlative most sore)

1. Very, excessively, extremely.

   They were sore afraid.

2. Sorely.
   • 1919, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jungle Tales of Tarzan [1]

     ...[they] were often sore pressed to follow the trail at all, and at best were so delayed that in the afternoon of the second day, they still had not overhauled the fugitive.

Noun

Sores

sore (plural sores)

1. An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.

   They put ointment and a bandage on the sore.

Translations

injured, infected, inflamed, or diseased patch of skin

Bulgarian: рана (bg) f. Finnish: haava (fi), tulehdus (fi), ruhje (fi) French: plaie (fr) Italian: piaga (it) f., ferita (it) f., ulcera (it) f. Latin: ulcus (la) n. Navajo: łóód

Portuguese: chaga (pt) Romanian: plagă (ro) Russian: болячка (ru) (boljáčka) f., рана (ru) (rána) f., язва (ru) (jázva) f. Scottish Gaelic: creuchd f., lot m., puthar m. Spanish: llaga (es) f.

See also

• blister
• lesion
• ulcer

Anagrams

• EROS, Eros, eros, ores, orse, roes, Rose, rose, rosé

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Indonesian

Noun

sore

1. afternoon

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Istro-Romanian

Etymology

Latin sōl

Noun

sore m. (definite singular sorele, plural sori)

1. sun

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Japanese

Pronoun

sore (kanji 其れ, hiragana それ)

1. that one

See also

Japanese demonstratives (edit)
	ko-	so-	a-	do-
Object	これ	それ	あれ	どれ
Determiner	この	その	あの	どの
Kind	こんな	そんな	あんな	どんな
Place	ここ	そこ	あそこ*	どこ
Direction	こちら	そちら	あちら	どちら
	こっち	そっち	あっち	どっち
Human	こいつ	そいつ	あいつ	どいつ
Manner	こう	そう	ああ**	どう
* irregular ** regular (long vowel)

Usage notes

• The hiragana spelling (それ) is preferred to the kanji spelling (其れ), which is rarely used.