sore

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Painful and sensitive, especially from injury or overuse.

   Her feet were sore from walking so far.

2. 2
   adj

   Angry or upset, especially because of being treated unfairly.

   Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers.

3. 3
   adj

   Very great and urgent (of a need).

   The school was in sore need of textbooks after the flood.

Common collocations

• sore throat Adjective + noun

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 *sh₂eyro-, enlargement of *sh₂ey- (“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”).

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