Synonyms for sore
sɔr, soʊrsore

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. soreadjective

   Synonyms:
   painful, irritated, susceptible, excoriated, raw, scarified, ulcerous, grievous, afflictive, heavy, burdensome

   Antonyms:
   painless, sound, whole, healthful, healed, unbroken, unscarified, light, trivial, unburdensome, pleasant, untroublesome, grateful

2. sorenoun

   Synonyms:
   pustule, abscess, ulcer

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. soreadjective

   an open skin infection

   Antonyms:
   pleasant, painless, unangry(p)

2. sensitive, sore, raw, tenderadjective

   hurting

   "the tender spot on his jaw"

   Synonyms:
   stark naked, sensitive, tender, bare-assed, new, fond, cranky, crank, raw, warm, naked as a jaybird, unsanded, natural, peeled, in the altogether, painful, cutting, in the raw, affectionate, crude, mad, tippy, afflictive, bare-ass, raw(a), rude(a), naked, bleak, huffy, lovesome, sensible, untoughened, in the buff

   Antonyms:
   pleasant, painless, unangry(p)

3. afflictive, painful, soreadjective

   causing misery or pain or distress

   "it was a sore trial to him"; "the painful process of growing up"

   Synonyms:
   mad, irritating, sensitive, huffy, painful, raw, terrible, unspeakable, tender, awful, afflictive, atrocious, abominable, dreadful

   Antonyms:
   unangry(p), painless, pleasant

4. huffy, mad, soreadjective

   roused to anger

   "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark"

   Synonyms:
   thin-skinned, huffy, unhinged, delirious, raw, sick, disturbed, feisty, insane, mad, harebrained, unbalanced, brainsick, demented, tender, excited, afflictive, frantic, unrestrained, crazy, sensitive, painful, touchy

   Antonyms:
   painless, pleasant, unangry(p)

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. sorenoun

   Synonyms:
   ulcer, fester, abscess, imposthume, gathering, boil, pustule

2. soreadjective

   Synonyms:
   painful (from inflammation), tender

3. soreadjective

   Synonyms:
   pained, hurt, grieved

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. soreadjective

   Synonyms:
   ulcerated, cankered, ulcerous, raw, inflamed, irritated, distressing, grievous, severe, grieved, pained, hurt, sensitive

2. soreadverb

   Synonyms:
   grievously, sorely, severely, greatly

3. sorenoun

   Synonyms:
   ulcer, ulceration, imposthume, pustule, boil, abscess, canker, fester, blain, gathering, (venereal sore) chancre, chancroid

   Associated words:
   antiseptic, slough, proud flesh, poultice, salve, ointment, pledget, spleget

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1. List of paraphrases for "sore":

   wound, painful, sensitive, pain

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1. Astrid Coyne-Jensen:

   Mainly we had flu-like infections, sore throats, fevers, unlike in the summer when we were treating blisters and foot injuries. People are mainly seeking immediate help to relieve symptoms as they are in a hurry, they rarely stop for a prolonged intervention.

2. Alexander Borodai:

   To be honest, I expect that the Minsk 2 agreements will not be observed, in the same manner as the Minsk 1 agreements were not, and at the end of the day the Ukrainian army will launch an offensive. This is a very probable development ... I am not sure that it will end without a big war, as Russia cannot tolerate this sore on its borders forever.

3. Dan Quinn:

   He's got a sore hamstring, and we're going to make sure he's full speed to go.

4. Crystal Alvarez:

   It has been busier than prior school years when there was no pandemic, now with any mild cold or a sore throat or anything like that they have to be sent to the nurse's office.

5. Tina Wilson:

   We do feel as an organization and as a Orange County community that someone is negligent concerning Tyre Sampson's death, please, take your structure down replace it with something more kid friendly, something that memorializes him in a brighter light. Because right now, that monstrosity, as it's known now, is not just an eye sore, it's a heart sore.