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)/, X-SAMPA: /sO:(r)/
• Homophone: soar, saw (in non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)

• Audio (US)

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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. Dire; distressing.

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

3. (informal) Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.

   Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers.

Derived terms

Terms derived from sore (adj.)

sight for sore eyes sorely

soreness

sore point

Translations

causing pain

• Bulgarian: болезнен (bg) (boleznen) m
• Catalan: adolorit (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 酸 (cmn) (suān)

• Danish: øm (da)
• Dutch: pijnlijk (nl)
• Finnish: kipeä (fi), arka (fi)
• French: douloureux (fr)
• German: wund (de), weh (de), schlimm (de), entzündet (de)
• Greek: επώδυνος (el) (epódynos) m, πονεμένος (el) (poneménos) m
• Hawaiian: ʻeha

• Irish: tinn (ga)
• Italian: doloroso, dolorante, infiammato, ...fa male (...is sore)
• Old English: wund (ang)
• Portuguese: doloroso (pt) m
• Russian: больной (ru) (bolʹnój), болезненный (ru) (boléznennyj)
• Scots: sair
• Scottish Gaelic: goirt
• Serbo-Croatian: bolan (sh) m
• Spanish: dolorido (es)
• Swedish: öm (sv) c

dire, distressing

• Bulgarian: отчаян (bg) (otčajan) m
• Dutch: erbarmelijk (nl),wanhopig (nl)
• Finnish: kipeä (fi)

• French: pénible (fr),désespérant (fr)
• Greek: βασανιστικός (el) (vasanistikós) m
• Russian: отчаянный (ru) (otčájannyj)

annoyed — see annoyed

Adverb

sore (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).

   They were sore afraid.

   The knight was sore wounded.

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.

2. A group of ducks on land. (See also: sord

Translations

injured, infected, inflamed, or diseased patch of skin

• Bulgarian: рана (bg) (rana) f
• Dutch: wonde (nl)
• Finnish: haava (fi), tulehdus (fi), ruhje (fi)
• French: plaie (fr)
• Greek: έλκος (el) (élkos) n, πληγή (el) (pligí) f
• 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 (part of the day between noon and evening)

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Istro-Romanian

Etymology

Latin sōl

Noun

sore m (definite singular sorele, plural sori)

1. sun

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Japanese

Romanization

sore

1. See それ

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Malay

Etymology

From Indonesian sore.

Alternative forms

• سوري

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sore/
• Rhymes: -re, -e

Noun

sore

1. afternoon (part of the day between noon and evening)

Synonyms

• petang / ڤتڠ