sore

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

adj. painful, tender, sensitive; grieved, distressed; harsh, severe, intense, dire; slang, aggrieved, resentful, disgruntled. See pain, discontent, resentment. — n. wound, abrasion, ulcer, chancroid, sore spot. See disease.

II

(Roget's IV) modif.

1. [Tender]

Syn. painful, hurting, hurtful, severe, raw, aching, smarting, sensitive, irritated, irritable, vexatious, distressing, grievous, bruised, angry, inflamed, burned, unpleasant, ulcerated, abscessed, uncomfortable.

2. [*Angry]

Syn. offended, hurt, resentful, irritated; see angry .

n.

Syn. cut, bruise, wound, boil, ulcer, hurt, abscess, gash, stab, gall, soreness, discomfort, injury; see also pain 2 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)

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n.

wound, injury, lesion, cut, laceration, scar, scrape, bruise, abrasion, ulceration, blister, boil, painful area, tender area.

II

a.

1. painful tender, aching, burning, throbbing, stabbing, hurting, smarting, stinging, sensitive, raw, bruised, irritated.

2. angry offended, mad, *pissed, irritated, annoyed, peeved, irked, indignant, resentful.

ANT.: 1. numb, healed. 2. pleased, delighted

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Marked by, causing, or experiencing physical pain: aching, achy, afflictive, hurtful, nagging, painful, smarting. See PAIN. 2. Informal. Feeling or showing anger: angry, choleric, indignant, mad. Idiom: hot under the collar. See FEELINGS.