as in sore
causing or feeling bodily pain
unable to play in tomorrow's football game because of an achy right knee
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Recent Examples of achy
Peppermint oil adds a cooling touch of relief for tired, achy feet—always a welcome bonus.
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Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 25 Aug. 2025
Constructed with a padded memory foam insole, the boots are designed to prevent achy feet and provide long-lasting comfort.
—Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2025
In addition to swelling, usually around the feet and ankles, symptoms can include legs that are achy, heavy feeling or tingly, and varicose veins.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 18 July 2025
My feet are a bit achy and the tops of my shoulders a little sore to the touch, but spirits are still high.
—Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
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Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 25 Aug. 2025
Constructed with a padded memory foam insole, the boots are designed to prevent achy feet and provide long-lasting comfort.
—Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2025
In addition to swelling, usually around the feet and ankles, symptoms can include legs that are achy, heavy feeling or tingly, and varicose veins.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 18 July 2025
My feet are a bit achy and the tops of my shoulders a little sore to the touch, but spirits are still high.
—Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for achy
Adjective
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On Lia’s first day back, though, her throat was sore all morning.—
Eli Cahan,
Rolling Stone,
16 Oct. 2025
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That is a sight for sore eyes in Chicago.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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In this aching, unorthodox historical drama, Davies tells the story of the pacifist poet and veteran Siegfried Sassoon, whose experiences fighting in the First World War forever transformed him.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
5 Aug. 2025
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Braxton shares an aching need to be vulnerable only to realize by album’s end that such unions can result in horrible betrayal, her words of lament surrounded by swelling, lush orchestration.—
Clarence A. Haynes
July 3,
Literary Hub,
3 July 2025
Adjective
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There’s a wonderful chapter in which an older woman extolls a younger one to tell a painful story not with words, but with movements, so as to expel her pain without enlisting narrative’s power to summon, and thus force a re-living, of painful events.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Oct. 2025
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If anything, Peck hoped that the film’s density and wide scope would illuminate how frequently the past’s most painful moments repeat themselves.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Achy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/achy. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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