SORENESS Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

soreness

noun

Definition of soreness

as in discomfort

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Recent Examples of soreness First baseman Freddie Freeman was out of the lineup Monday managing right knee soreness, and second baseman Miguel Rojas was playing through shoulder soreness after aggravating a longstanding partial tear in a labrum. — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026 Freddie Freeman returned to the Dodgers lineup after missing three of the past five games with right knee soreness and had three singles in five at-bats. — ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026 Compression boots use rhythmic air pressure on the legs to boost circulation and move excess fluid out of muscles, which may ease swelling, soreness and heavy legs after training. — Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 14 Sep. 2026 The study measured only short-term physiological changes, though, and did not prove that compression improves athletic performance, reduces soreness or speeds overall recovery. — Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Sep. 2026 Track your soreness and sleep quality for two to three weeks after starting a new recovery tool. — Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 14 Sep. 2026 In other Vikings news, running back Jordan Mason is dealing with thumb soreness of unknown severity. — Andy Behrens, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026 The vaccine, Moderna’s mFlusiva, was found to be 27 percent more effective than a standard shot in trials but may have more mild side effects, like fatigue and injection-site soreness. — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026 Shohei Ohtani went 0 for 3 with two strikeouts and a walk in his return to the Los Angeles Dodgers' lineup Monday night after a four-day break to deal with lingering left knee and right biceps soreness. — CBS News, 9 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for soreness

Noun

How much does nothing weigh, when the nothing is filled with longing, curiosity, confusion, discomfort, and grief?

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
Ireland’s slim but searching play presents an issue of deep discomfort and homes in on the subject of that larger communal response.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of discomfort

Noun

Its moribund eccentricities cannot be separated from the tenderness of its story because Rhys and co-writer and composer, Joss Holden-Rea, have taken the time to sculpt characters with interiority that feels invitational.

— Zachary Lee, IndieWire, 16 Sep. 2026
Instead, the music can provide somewhere to put those feelings, a place where sadness, anger, desire, tenderness and joy can coexist without needing to be immediately resolved.

— Jason Phillips, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of tenderness

Noun

For a filmmaker who built 17 minutes around the ache of being watched, there’s a quiet symmetry to it — a stretch on the Lido spent, for once, doing the looking herself.

— Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
Symptoms and treatment For most people, West Nile produces mild symptoms — such as fever, aches and rashes — or none at all, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

— Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of ache

Noun

But, in his view, the discussion of mental distress among kids ought to focus there.

— Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026
The family’s attorney says Mayich struggled through a military-style practice with little rest or water, showing clear distress before collapsing.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of distress

Noun

Just take his February fall collection, which mashed up decades of American glamour with a sneaky British twinge.

— Alexandra Hildreth, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2026
Then came the third inning, a sudden twinge of pain in Carson Whisenhunt’s left elbow and an escort to the trainer’s room.

— Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026

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