2 : painfully sensitive <~ muscles>
3 : SEVERE, INTENSE
4 : feeling or showing anger : ANGRY
— sore·ness noun
Synonyms
nasty, painful—more at PAINFUL
2sore noun 1 : a sore spot on the body; especially : one (as an ulcer) with the tissues broken and usu. infected
2 : a source of pain or vexation
sore·head noun : a person easily angered or discontented
sore·ly adverb 1 : in a sore manner
2 : to a high degree
sore throat noun : painful throat due to inflammation of the fauces and pharynx
sor·ghum noun : a tall variable Old World tropical grass grown widely for its edible seed, for forage, or for its sweet juice which yields a syrup
so·ror·i·ty noun, plural -ties [ORIGIN: ML sororitas sisterhood, fr. L soror sister]
: a club or organization usu. of female students for social purposes
1sorrel noun : a brownish orange to light brown color; also : a sorrel-colored animal (as a horse)
2sorrel noun : any of various herbs having a sour juice
1sorrow noun 1 : deep distress, sadness, or regret; also : resultant unhappy or unpleasant state
2 : a cause of grief or sadness
3 : a display of grief or sadness
Synonyms
affliction, anguish, dolor, grief, heartache, woe; also agony, distress, pain, torment, suffering; blues, dejection, depression, desolateness, desolation, despondency, distress, doldrums, dumps, forlornness, gloom, gloominess, heartsickness, melancholy, miserableness, misery, oppression, sadness, unhappiness, wretchedness; regret, remorse, rue
Antonyms
blessedness, bliss, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, delight, ecstasy, elation, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, exultation, gladness, glee, happiness, joy, joyousness, jubilation, pleasure, rapture
2sorrow verb : to feel or express sorrow
Synonyms
agonize, bleed, feel, grieve, hurt, mourn, suffer—more at GRIEVE
sor·row·ful adjective 1 : full of or marked by sorrow
2 : expressive of or inducing sorrow
Synonyms
[1] anguished, dolorous, lamentable, mournful, plaintive, sad, sorry, woeful; also funereal, gloomy, lugubrious; regretful, remorseful, repentant, rueful; miserable, pathetic, piteous, wretched; bewailing, deploring, grieving, wailing, weeping; dejected, depressed, dispirited, downcast, downhearted, heartsick
[2] dolorous, funeral, lugubrious, mournful, plaintive, regretful, rueful, weeping, woeful—more at MOURNFUL
sor·row·ful·ly adverb : in a sorrowful manner
Synonyms
agonizingly, bitterly, grievously, hard, hardly, sadly, unhappily, woefully, wretchedly—more at HARD
sor·ry adjective sor·ri·er; -est 1 : feeling sorrow, regret, or penitence
2 : full of sorrow : MOURNFUL
3 : causing sorrow, pity, or scorn
Synonyms
[1] apologetic, contrite, penitent, regretful, remorseful, repentant, rueful—more at CONTRITE
[3] depressing, dismal, dreary, heartbreaking, melancholy, pathetic, sad, tearful—more at SAD
[3] contemptible, despicable, pitiful
1sort noun 1 : a group of persons or things that have similar characteristics : CLASS
2 : WAY, MANNER
3 : QUALITY, NATURE
4 : an instance of sorting
5 : a single human being — out of sorts
1 : somewhat ill
2 : GROUCHY, IRRITABLE
Synonyms
breed, class, description, feather, ilk, kind, like, manner, nature, order, species, type; also model; sample, specimen; bracket, category, division, family, grade, group, lot, persuasion, set
2sort verb 1 : to put in a certain place according to kind, class, or nature
2 : to be in accord : AGREE
— sort·er noun
Synonyms
assort, break down, categorize, class, classify, grade, group, peg, place, range, rank, separate—more at CLASSIFY
sor·tie noun 1 : a sudden issuing of troops from a defensive position against the enemy
2 : one mission or attack by one airplane
sort of adverb : to a moderate degree
Synonyms
enough, fairly, kind of, moderately, pretty, quite, rather, so-so, somewhat