Painful, as being the seat of a wound or of disease; aching; specifically, painfully sensitive to the touch: said of the part affected, or, by extension, of the entire member or person concerned.Inflicting physical suffering; giving bodily pain.Suffering mental pain; distressed; painfully sensitive; touchy.Bringing sorrow, misery, or regret; distressing; grievous; oppressive.Associated with painful ideas or feelings; accompanied by grief, anger, mortification, regret, discomfort, or the like; serving as an occasion of bitterness: as, a sore subject.Severe; violent; fierce.Exceeding; extreme; intense.Wretched: vile; worthless; base.n. A state of suffering or pain; grief; sorrow; misery.n. A wounded or diseased spot on an animal body; a painful or painfully tender place, with or without solution of continuity, on or near the surface of the body.n. A source of grief, distress, annoyance, or bitterness; a misfortune; a trouble.With physical suffering; so as to cause bodily pain; painfully.In a manner indicating or causing mental pain; deplorably; grievously; bitterly.Violently; fiercely; severely.Exceedingly; thoroughly; intensely.Firmly; tightly; fast.To make sore; wound.Reddish-brown; sorrel. See sorrel, and compare sorage, sore-eagle, sore-falcon, sore-hawk.n. A hawk of the first year.n. A buck of the fourth year. See sorrel, 3.An obsolete spelling of soar.