Dictionary Entry
sore
sore is a 4-letter English word with 15 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Reddish brown; sorrel. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 4 · 15 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Reddish brown; sorrel.
- 2noun
A young hawk or falcon in the first year.
- 3noun
A young buck in the fourth year. See the Note under Buck.
- 4superlative
Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful; -- said of the body or its parts; as, a sore hand.
- 5superlative
Fig.: Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
- 6superlative
Severe; afflictive; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore evil or calamity.
- 7superlative
Criminal; wrong; evil.
- 8adjective
A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful; a painful or diseased place, such as an ulcer or a boil.
- 9adjective
Fig.: Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
- 10adjective
In a sore manner; with pain; grievously.
- 11adjective
Greatly; violently; deeply.
- 12noun
an open skin infection
- 13adjective
roused to anger- Mark Twain
"stayed huffy a good while"
"she gets mad when you wake her up so early"
- 14adjective
hurting
"the tender spot on his jaw"
- 15adjective
causing misery or pain or distress
"it was a sore trial to him"
"the painful process of growing up"
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