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
The downhill knee-crunch, the backpack-lower back train wreck, the way your neck feels like a wire cable after carrying a load all day, and every flavor of sore and achy feet are real.
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Kate Pitts, Outside, 30 Sep. 2025
Here’s the at-home solution your achy legs have been begging for.
—Jenny McCoy, SELF, 3 Sep. 2025
Peppermint oil adds a cooling touch of relief for tired, achy feet—always a welcome bonus.
—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
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Kate Pitts, Outside, 30 Sep. 2025
Here’s the at-home solution your achy legs have been begging for.
—Jenny McCoy, SELF, 3 Sep. 2025
Peppermint oil adds a cooling touch of relief for tired, achy feet—always a welcome bonus.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for achy
Adjective
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Persistent increases in utility rates have become a sore point for customers across California.—
Rob Nikolewski,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Jan. 2026
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Getting flip-flops with thick, padded soles will ensure that your ankles, toes and heels don’t feel sore after a long day.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
14 Jan. 2026
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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Proper skin preparation is key to making your wax sessions less painful.—
Tatayana Yomary,
Essence,
7 Jan. 2026
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The high fevers, hospitalizations, and dehydration that these illnesses cause can be painful and disruptive—and, with vaccines, avoidable.—
Tom Bartlett,
The Atlantic,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Achy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/achy. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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