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- [sawr, sohr]
- /sɔr, soʊr/
- /ˈsɔːnɪs/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [sawr, sohr]
- /sɔr, soʊr/
Definitions of soreness word
- adjective soreness physically painful or sensitive, as a wound, hurt, or diseased part: a sore arm. 1
- adjective soreness suffering bodily pain from wounds, bruises, etc., as a person: He is sore because of all that exercise. 1
- adjective soreness suffering mental pain; grieved, distressed, or sorrowful: to be sore at heart. 1
- adjective soreness causing great mental pain, distress, or sorrow: a sore bereavement. 1
- adjective soreness causing very great suffering, misery, hardship, etc.: sore need. 1
- adjective soreness Informal. annoyed; irritated; offended; angered: He was sore because he had to wait. 1
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Origin of soreness
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English (adj., noun, and adv.); Old English sār; cognate with Dutch zeer, German sehr, Old Norse sārr
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Parts of speech for Soreness
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
soreness popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 94% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
soreness usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for soreness
noun soreness
- anger — Anger is the strong emotion that you feel when you think that someone has behaved in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way.
- black and blue — discolored, as by bruising; exhibiting ecchymosis: a black-and-blue mark on my knee.
- boo-boo — A boo-boo is a silly mistake or blunder.
- booboos — a stupid or silly mistake; blunder.
- downs — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
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