FromMiddle English sor , fromOld English sār ( “ ache, wound ” ,noun ) andsār ( “ painful, grievous ” ,adjective ) , fromProto-West Germanic *sair , fromProto-Germanic *sairaz ( adjective ) fromProto-Indo-European *sh₂eyro- , enlargement of*sh₂ey- ( “ to be fierce, afflict ” ) .
See alsoDutch zeer ( “ sore, ache ” ) ,Danish sår ( “ wound ” ) ,German sehr ( “ very ” ) ; alsoHittite [script needed] ( sāwar ,“ anger ” ) ,Welsh hoed ( “ pain ” ) ,Ancient Greek αἱμωδία ( haimōdía ,“ sensation of having teeth on edge ” ) .
sore (comparative sorer ,superlative sorest )
Causingpain ordiscomfort ;painfully sensitive .Synonyms: aching ,smarting ;see also Thesaurus:painful Her feet weresore from walking so far.
Sensitive ;tender ; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.Synonyms: delicate ,fragile ,tetchy ,touchy 1671 ,John Tillotson , “Sermon IV. The Advantages of Religion to Particular Persons.Psalm XIX. 11.”, inThe Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: [ … ] , London: [ … ] B. Aylmer, [ … ] ;[ a] nd W. Rogers, [ … ] , published1696 ,→OCLC :Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our mindssore and uneasy.
Dire ;distressing .The school was insore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.
( informal ) Feelinganimosity towards someone;annoyed orangered .Synonyms: irked ,ratty ;see also Thesaurus:annoyed ,Thesaurus:angry Joe wassore at Bob for beating him at checkers.
2024 May 1, “Network News: Do TfN and the DfT actually respect each other?”, inRAIL , number1008 , page13 :TfN is clearly verysore about last year's axing of part of HS2.
( obsolete ) Criminal; wrong; evil.c. 1599–1602 (date written),William Shakespeare , “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC ,[ Act V, scene i] :[ …] and your water is asore decayer of your whoreson dead body.
Terms derived fromsore (adjective)
causing pain
Arabic:مُوجِع ( mūjiʕ ) ,مُؤْلِم ( muʔlim ) Belarusian:балю́чы ( baljúčy ) Bulgarian:боле́знен (bg) ( boléznen ) ,бо́лен (bg) ( bólen ) Catalan:adolorit (ca) Chinese:Mandarin:酸 (zh) ( suān ) Czech:bolavý (cs) Danish:øm ,sår (da) Dutch:pijnlijk (nl) Finnish:kipeä (fi) ,arka (fi) French:douloureux (fr) Georgian:მტკივანი ( mṭḳivani ) German:wund (de) ,weh (de) ,schlimm (de) ,entzündet (de) ,schmerzend (de) Greek:επώδυνος (el) ( epódynos ) ,πονεμένος (el) ( poneménos ) Guarani:Mbya Guarani:axy Hawaiian:ʻeha Hindi:सूजन (hi) f ( sūjan ) Hungarian:fájdalmas (hu) ,fájó (hu) ,( verb ) fáj (hu) Ingrian:kippiä Irish:tinn (ga) Italian:doloroso (it) ,dolorante (it) ,infiammato (it) ,...fa male ( ...is sore ) Japanese:痛い (ja) ( いたい, itai ) ,痛ましい (ja) ( いたましい, itamashii ) Khmer:ឈឺ (km) ( chɨɨ ) Korean:아프다 (ko) ( apeuda ) Lao:ເຈັບ ( chep ) Macedonian:болен ( bolen ) Malay:lenguh-lenguh Māori:mamae Mongolian:Cyrillic:өвчтэй ( övčtej ) ,өвдөж байгаа ( övdöž bajgaa ) Norwegian:Bokmål:sår (no) ,øm (no) Nyunga:bidjee Old English:wund Persian:دَردناک (fa) ( dardnâk ) Polish:obolały (pl) ,bolący Portuguese:dolorido (pt) Romanian:dureros (ro) ,sensibil (ro) Russian:больно́й (ru) ( bolʹnój ) ,боле́зненный (ru) ( boléznennyj ) Scots:sair Scottish Gaelic:goirt Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:бо̑лан Latin:bȏlan (sh) Slovak:boľavý Slovene:boleč (sl) Spanish:dolorido (es) Swedish:öm (sv) c Thai:เจ็บ (th) ( jèp ) Tibetan:ན ( na ) Ukrainian:бо́лісний (uk) ( bólisnyj ) Vietnamese:đau đớn (vi) Welsh:tost (cy)
sore (notcomparable )
( archaic ) Very ,excessively ,extremely (of something bad).1611 ,The Holy Bible, [ … ] (King James Version ), London: [ … ] Robert Barker , [ … ] ,→OCLC ,Joshua 9:24 :And they answered Ioshua, and said, Because it was certainely told thy seruants, how that the Lord thy God commanded his seruant Moses to giue you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we weresore afraid of our liues because of you, and haue done this thing.
1859 ,Alfred Tennyson , “Elaine”, inIdylls of the King , London:Edward Moxon & Co. , [ … ] ,→OCLC ,pages174–175 :But on that day when Lancelot fled the lists, / His party, knights of utmost North and West, / Lords of waste marches, kings of desolate isles, / Came round their great Pendragon, saying to him / 'Lo, Sire, our knight thro' whom we won the day / Hath gonesore wounded, and hath left his prize / Untaken, crying that his prize is death.'
1879 ,R[ichard] J[efferies] , “The Old Punt: A Curious ‘Turnpike’”, inThe Amateur Poacher , London:Smith, Elder, & Co. , [ … ] ,→OCLC ,pages19–20 :Orion hit a rabbit once; but thoughsore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.
Sorely .1919 ,Edgar Rice Burroughs ,Jungle Tales of Tarzan [2] :[… they] were oftensore 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.
Sores sore (plural sores )
Aninjured ,infected ,inflamed ordiseased patch ofskin .They put ointment and a bandage on thesore .
Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty. injured, infected, inflamed, or diseased patch of skin
Ao:komo ( Chungli ) Arabic:سَعْفَة m ( saʕfa ) Armenian:խոց (hy) ( xocʻ ) Belarusian:бо́лька f ( bólʹka ) ,ра́на f ( rána ) Bengali:জখম (bn) ( zôkhôm ) Bulgarian:ра́на (bg) f ( rána ) Burmese:please add this translation if you can Chinese:Mandarin:瘡 / 疮 (zh) ( chuāng ) Dutch:wond (nl) f Esperanto:lezo ,skrapvundo ,ulcero Finnish:haava (fi) ,tulehdus (fi) ,ruhje (fi) French:plaie (fr) Galician:chaga f Georgian:ჩირქი ( čirki ) ,წყლული ( c̣q̇luli ) ,იარა ( iara ) German:Wunde (de) f Greek:έλκος (el) n ( élkos ) ,πληγή (el) f ( pligí ) Ancient Greek:ἕλκος n ( hélkos ) Hindi:फोड़ा (hi) m ( phoṛā ) ,फुड़िया (hi) f ( phuṛiyā ) Hungarian:seb (hu) ,gyulladás (hu) ,fekély (hu) ,sebes /sérült /gyulladt /fekélyes bőr (felület ) Ingrian:haava ,raana Italian:piaga (it) f ,ferita (it) f ,ulcera (it) f Japanese:瘡 (ja) ( かさ, kasa ) ,腫物 ( しゅもつ, shumotsu, はれもの, haremono ) ,腫れ物 (ja) ( はれもの, haremono ) ,爛れ (ja) ( ただれ, tadare ) Khmer:ដំបៅ (km) ( dɑmbaw ) Korean:상처(傷處) (ko) ( sangcheo ) Lao:please add this translation if you can Latin:ulcus (la) n Māori:maki ,ipuipu ,keha ,tongako ,mariao Mongolian:please add this translation if you can Navajo:łóód Plautdietsch:Schlems n Portuguese:chaga (pt) Romanian:plagă (ro) Russian:боля́чка (ru) f ( boljáčka ) ,ра́на (ru) f ( rána ) ,я́зва (ru) f ( jázva ) Scottish Gaelic:creuchd f ,lot m ,puthar m Spanish:llaga (es) f Swahili:kidonda (sw) Thai:แผล (th) ( plɛ̌ɛ ) ,แผลเปื่อย ( plɛ̌ɛ-bpʉ̀ai ) Tibetan:please add this translation if you can Turkish:Ottoman Turkish:یاره ( yara ) Ukrainian:боля́чка (uk) f ( boljáčka ) ,ра́на f ( rána ) Vietnamese:sưng (vi) Woiwurrung:budhun
sore (third-person singular simple present sores ,present participle soring ,simple past and past participle sored )
( transitive ) Tomutilate the legs or feet of (ahorse ) in order to induce a particulargait .( intransitive ) To grow sores; to be beset with skinlesions .FromMiddle English sor ( “ sorrel ” ) , fromOld French sor ( “ sorrel; reddish ” ) . CompareFrench saur ( “ ( archaic ) reddish-brown; describing a young bird of prey” ) .
sore (plural sores )
A younghawk orfalcon in its first year.1596 , Edmund Spenser,An Hymne of Heavenly Beautie :Of thesoare faulcon so I learn to fly
A youngbuck in its fourth year.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC ,[ Act IV, scene ii] :Some say aSore , but not a sore, till now made sore with shooting. The Dogges did yell, put ell to Sore, then Sorell iumps from thicket: Or Pricket-sore, or else Sorell, the people fall a hooting. If Sore be sore, then ell to Sore, makes fiftie sores O sorell: Of one sore I an hundred make by adding but one more L.
Rose ,reos ,'orse ,REOs ,ROEs ,roes ,RoEs ,Roes ,eors ,orse ,ores ,öres ,rose ,Reos ,EORs ,sero- ,eros ,Eros ,rosé ,EROS Cognate withMoore sore ( “ road ” ) .
sore (plural sɔa)
road ,way ,street FromLatin supra .
sore
over above sore
above on top up Borrowed fromJavanese ꦱꦺꦴꦫꦺ ( soré ,“ late afternoon, early evening ” ) , derived fromOld Javanese sore ( “ evening ” ) , fromsor ( “ lower, below ” ) +we ,way ( “ sun, day ” ) .[ 1]
sore (plural sore -sore )
the second half of theafternoon ; the time of the day from around 3pm untilsunset (including theevening ).Synonym: petang ^ Nothofer, B. (2013 ),Pengantar Etimologi [Introduction to Etymology ] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan,→ISBN , page123 FromLatin sōl ,sōlem (compareRomanian soare ); fromProto-Italic [Term?] , from pre-Italic *sh₂wōl , ultimately fromProto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ . CompareRomanian soare .
sore m (definite singular sorele ,plural sori )
sun sore
Rōmaji transcription ofそれ FromIndonesian sore , fromJavanese ꦱꦺꦴꦫꦺ ( soré ) , fromOld Javanese sore ( “ evening ” ) , fromsor ( “ lower, below ” ) +we ,way ( “ sun, day ” ) .[ 1]
sore (Jawi spelling سوري ,plural sore -sore or sore 2 )
( Indonesia ) afternoon ( part of the day between noon and evening ) Synonym: petang ^ Nothofer, Bernd (2013 ),Pengantar Etimologi [Introduction to Etymology ] (in Indonesian), Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan,→ISBN , page123 FromOld French seür .
sore
alternative form ofsure FromOld English sār , fromProto-Germanic *sairą ( noun ) ,*sairaz ( adjective ) .
sore (plural and weak singular sore ,comparative sorer ,sorrer ,superlative sorest )
Senses associated with pain: Harmful; creating or producing pain. Sore,hurting , injured; currently in pain or wounded or affected by it. Capable of inducing or creating pain or wounds;rending ordire . Senses associated with anguish: Harmful; creating or producing anguish, sadness or torment. Upset,distressed ; currently in agony or anguish or affected by it. Challenging, complicated, laborious; requiring a large expenditure of one's energies:Challenging to deal with on the battlefield; violent, intense, mighty. Challenging to deal with; inducing great anguish. ( Used with words relating to pain, soreness, or anguish ) Very ,strongly ,bad ,grievously .Malicious, iniquitous, malign; not morally or spiritually in the right. sore (plural sores )
The condition of bodily painfulness or hurting. A condition of anguish or affliction of the thought; injury of the mind:An issue or difficulty, especially one that causes great distress or evil. Regret; remorsefulness; anguish over one's past actions. ( rare ) The state of being scared or frightened. A specific affliction or condition:.A medical or pathological affliction or condition; amalady . A physical affliction or condition; asore orwound . sore (comparative sorer ,sorrer ,superlative sorest )
Hurtfully, harmfully; in a way which creates wounds, painfulness, or anguish:Strictly, mercilessly, remorselessly; without attention to kindness or mercy. Expensively ; in a way which creates a monetary or resource setback. With intense effort, prowess, or capability:Viciously, mightily, ruthlessly, strongly; using intense strength or prowess in battle. Nimbly, powerfully, quickly; using intense dexterity or physical force. Toilingly ;backbreakingly ,painstakingly ; with much work.With great patience and focus; diligently; patiently. ( Especially used with words relating to feelings or thought ) Very ,extremely ,incredibly ,a lot .Taut , secure; held strongly and with security.While suffering or experiencing an injury or pain. sore
alternative form ofsoren sore
alternative form ofsor sore
alternative form ofsorre sore
alternative form ofsire Cognate withFarefare sore ( “ road ” )
/só.rè/
sore (plural soaya)
road, way, path journey crossing Fromsor ( “ lower, below ” ) +we ,way ( “ sun, day ” ) .[ 2]
sore
afternoon Synonyms: sāyaṅkāla ,sontĕn ,taḍah ^ Wojowasito, S. (1977 ), “sore”, inKamus Kawi-Indonesia [1] , revised & enlarged edition, Malang, East Java: Penerbit CV Pengarang, page248 ^ Nothofer, Bernd (2013 ),Pengantar Etimologi [Introduction to Etymology ] (in Indonesian), Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan,→ISBN , page123 sore
( intransitive ) tosneeze ( intransitive ) tocrow (as a rooster)Rika Hayami-Allen (2001 ),A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia , University of Pittsburgh