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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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adj
Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: aching, smarting, achesome, achy, raw, hurt, hurty, griefful, pained, painfilled, painful, smartful, sore, suffering, tender, tormented
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: delicate, fragile, tetchy, touchy
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adj
Dire; distressing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Synonyms: irked, ratty, annoyed, angry, aggravated, agitated, bothered, exasperated, frustrated, irritable, irritated, peeved, pestered, pissy, shitty, sore, tired, vexed, bee in one's bonnet, have it in for, hot and bothered, hold a grudge, brassed off, browned off, cheesed off, peed off, pissed off, PO'd, teed off, ticked off, apoplectic, bad-tempered, berserk, big mad, blood-boiling, boiling mad, butthurt, choleric, cranky, cross, enraged, fit to be tied, fuming, furibund, furious, fury, glimflashy, grim, hopping mad, ill-natured, incensed, infuriated, irate, ireful, ired, little mad, livid, mad, mad as a bear with a sore head, miffed, offended, pathetic, p'd off, pissed, raging, ready to be tied, screwfaced, seething, spitting chips, splenetic, steaming, up on one's ear, upset, waxy, wode, wrathful, wroth, zowerswopped
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adj
Criminal; wrong; evil.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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adv
Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, not-comparable
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adv
Sorely.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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noun
An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A young hawk or falcon in its first year.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A young buck in its fourth year.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Acronym of small off-road engine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
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verb
To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To grow sores; to be beset with skin lesions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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adjective satellite
roused to anger- Mark Twain
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: huffy, mad
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
hurting
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: sensitive, raw, tender
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adjective satellite
causing misery or pain or distress
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: afflictive, painful
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noun
an open skin infection
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: infection
Narrower terms: blain, chancre, fester, suppurating sore, gall
History
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 *seh2iro-, enlargement of *seh2y- (“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”).
From Middle English sor (“sorrel”), from Old French sor (“sorrel; reddish”). Compare French saur (“(archaic) reddish-brown; describing a young bird of prey”).
Across languages
156 source translations are retained for this English entry.
