Definitions
Painful, tender, or upset.
Word origin
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 *seh₂iro-, enlargement of *seh₂y- (“to be fierce, afflict”).
Used in a sentence
“Her feet were sore from walking so far.”
“Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy.”
“The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Painful to the touch”4 letters
02“Aching”4 letters
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