Synonyms for sore
sɔr, soʊr

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

1. sore(adj)

   an open skin infection

   Antonyms:
   pleasant, painless, unangry(p)

2. sensitive, sore, raw, tender(adj)

   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, sore(adj)

   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, sore(adj)

   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)

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

1. sore(a)

   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. sore(n)

   Synonyms:
   pustule, abscess, ulcer

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

1. sore(n.)

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

2. sore(a.)

   Synonyms:
   painful (from inflammation), tender

3. sore(a.)

   Synonyms:
   pained, hurt, grieved

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

1. sore(a)

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

2. sore(adv)

   Synonyms:
   grievously, sorely, severely, greatly

3. sore(n)

   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. Richard Winger:

   When you add them all up, practically every state is on record saying our sore loser law doesn't apply to presidential primaries.

2. Alfred Hitchcock:

   I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.

3. Katharine Lee:

   It wasn’t a symptom that was on the list, i expected that my arm would be sore, or that I might have a fever or a headache, but this just wasn’t on the list.

4. Mirinda Carfrae:

   Most days, I'm out there, I'm enjoying what I'm doing. I love my job, I love my life, some days I get up, I'm sore, I'm on the edge of getting sick, I'm like, just beat up, and I don't want to go out. I just kind of make myself go out there and do it.

5. Claire McCaskill:

   I’m really grateful to Joe – a little bit of a sore rib for a couple of weeks is no big deal.

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