Synonyms of sore

sore 1 of 3

adjective

1

as in aching

causing or feeling bodily pain

my legs are sore after that long walk yesterday

Synonyms & Similar Words

• aching
• painful
• hurting
• swollen
• damaging
• achy
• nasty
• injurious
• hurtful
• bleeding
• pinching
• afflictive
• severe
• agonizing
• harmful
• torturous
• burning
• detrimental
• excruciating
• pernicious
• stinging
• noxious
• inflamed
• deleterious
• cramping
• nagging
• tender
• smarting
• raw
• chafing
• festering
• itching
• grievous
• prickling
• pricking
• threatening
• wounding
• enflamed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• painless
• healing
• indolent
• helping
• remedial
• curative

2

as in angry

feeling or showing anger

promise not to get sore if I tell you what I really think of your new hairstyle?

Synonyms & Similar Words

• angry
• indignant
• enraged
• mad
• outraged
• infuriated
• angered
• furious
• ballistic
• infuriate
• inflamed
• irritable
• hot
• annoyed
• rabid
• passionate
• livid
• irate
• wrathful
• hot under the collar
• bent out of shape
• fuming
• in a huff
• incensed
• steaming
• hopping mad
• apoplectic
• fit to be tied
• enflamed
• ireful
• riled
• blue in the face
• wroth
• aggravated
• foaming
• choleric
• in a pet
• in a fume
• going crook
• hopping
• shirty
• rankled
• cheesed off
• exasperated
• ticked
• horn-mad
• roiled
• unpleasant
• steamed up
• riley
• cross
• burning
• boiling
• seething
• embittered
• bristly
• resentful
• cold
• teed off
• spiteful
• vindictive
• virulent
• icy
• disagreeable
• sulky
• bristling
• vengeful
• distant
• stormy
• huffy
• antagonistic
• smoldering
• grumpy
• worked up
• bitter
• acrid
• rancorous
• smouldering
• ranting
• acrimonious
• fretful
• malevolent
• frigid
• wrought (up)
• peevish
• sizzling
• grouchy
• crabby
• antipathetic
• cranky
• snappish
• bilious
• inimical
• petulant
• antisocial
• unfriendly
• vitriolic
• testy
• dyspeptic
• touchy
• raving
• perturbed
• querulous
• ornery
• churlish
• cantankerous
• belligerent
• disapproving
• sorehead
• inflammable
• bearish
• irascible
• soreheaded
• fussy
• pugnacious
• quarrelsome
• cool
• ill-tempered
• contentious
• contrary
• piqued
• ill-humored
• disputatious
• argumentative
• put out
• quick-tempered

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pleased
• delighted
• accepting
• agreeable
• happy
• friendly
• complaisant
• amenable
• accommodating
• satisfied
• cordial
• sympathetic
• content
• angerless
• amicable
• obliging
• pleasant
• sweet
• tolerant
• calm
• kind
• understanding
• empathetic
• serene
• tranquil
• placid
• peaceable
• amiable
• pacific
• good-natured
• genial
• affable
• easygoing
• unembittered
• good-tempered

3

as in cynical

having or showing deep-seated resentment

he's been sore ever since she insulted him

Synonyms & Similar Words

• angry
• cynical
• bitter
• resentful
• embittered
• irritated
• mad
• acrid
• rancorous
• acrimonious
• hard
• sarcastic
• harsh
• discontented
• disgruntled
• vicious
• cruel
• rough
• disaffected
• scornful
• virulent
• savage
• contemptuous
• disdainful
• vehement
• misanthropic
• caustic
• malcontent
• acid
• trenchant
• vitriolic
• cutting
• mordant
• knock-down-and-drag-out
• knock-down, drag-out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• warm
• sweet
• sympathetic
• gentle
• kind
• loving
• unbitter
• tender
• forgiving
• caring
• kindhearted
• warmhearted

sore

2 of 3

adverb

as in terribly

to a great degree

I was sore afraid we'd never make it home

Synonyms & Similar Words

• terribly
• extremely
• very
• incredibly
• damn
• too
• badly
• damned
• severely
• so
• really
• highly
• desperately
• seriously
• jolly
• far
• intensely
• super
• greatly
• especially
• that
• much
• heavily
• wildly
• mighty
• awfully
• real
• full
• most
• awful
• particularly
• wicked
• exceptionally
• good and
• fiercely
• bone
• exceedingly
• immensely
• such
• mortally
• dang
• extra
• sorely
• exceeding
• absolutely
• frightfully
• specially
• hugely
• whacking
• totally
• cracking
• supremely
• fantastically
• thumping
• rattling
• achingly
• vitally
• deadly
• roaring
• way
• enormously
• passing
• uncommonly
• fabulously
• filthy
• deeply
• utterly
• thoroughly
• spanking
• monstrous
• surpassingly
• remarkably
• beastly
• stinking
• completely
• eminently
• mightily
• majorly
• almighty
• unco
• vastly
• a lot
• archly
• positively
• right
• colossally
• noticeably
• blisteringly
• entirely
• significantly
• ever
• roaringly
• visibly
• considerably
• wholly
• downright
• profoundly
• corking
• obviously
• as all get-out
• fully
• substantially
• radically
• notably
• flat-out
• purely
• palpably
• markedly
• extensively
• excessively
• plainly
• appreciably
• discernibly
• plentifully
• obscenely
• altogether
• abundantly
• monumentally
• amazingly
• astonishingly
• overmuch
• monstrously
• astronomically
• staggeringly
• grandly

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• somewhat
• little
• slightly
• nominally
• just
• negligibly
• barely
• scarcely
• hardly
• marginally
• minimally
• scantily
• meagerly

sore

3 of 3

noun

1

as in swelling

Synonyms & Similar Words

• swelling
• inflammation
• ache
• soreness
• twinge
• tingle
• pang
• discomfort
• sting
• pain
• prick
• stitch
• tenderness
• suffering
• distress
• shoot
• injury
• anguish
• misery
• smart
• hurt
• throe
• torture
• agony
• harm
• torment
• headache
• sufferance
• backache
• toothache
• detriment
• damage
• affliction
• colic
• gripe
• stomachache
• complaint
• earache
• bellyache
• charley horse

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ease
• comfort
• easiness

2

as in wart

Synonyms & Similar Words

• wart
• weal
• welt
• blister
• protuberance
• bump
• lump
• pimple
• pustule
• boil
• papule
• blackhead
• pock
• whitehead
• zit
• fester
• milium
• hickey
• whelk