Clues for the word "SORE"
We've had 306 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1154 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on April 15, 2025.
Definition of sore
- n. - Reddish brown; sorrel.
- n. - A young hawk or falcon in the first year.
- n. - A young buck in the fourth year. See the Note under Buck.
- superl. - Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful; -- said of the body or its parts; as, a sore hand.
- superl. - Fig.: Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
- superl. - Severe; afflictive; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore evil or calamity.
- superl. - Criminal; wrong; evil.
- a. - A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful; a painful or diseased place, such as an ulcer or a boil.
- a. - Fig.: Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
- a. - In a sore manner; with pain; grievously.
- a. - Greatly; violently; deeply.
Referring Clues
- Needing liniment
- Hurting
- Resentful
- Achy
- Mad as a hornet
- Peeved
- Mad (at)
- Holding a grudge
- Upset
- Recovering from a charley horse
- Painful
- None too happy
- Ticked off
- Welt
- Kind of loser
- Word with bed or saddle
- Teed off
- Like poor losers
- Stung
- Your throat might be this from yelling
- Huffy
- Miffed
- Disgruntled
- Like some losers
- Seeing red
- Needing some kneading?
- Put out
- Burned up
- Annoyed
- Plenty mad
- Ticked
- Tender
- Irritated
- *Teed off
- Sensitive
- Really steamed
- Hot under the collar
- In need of a masseuse
- Steamed
- In a huff
- Bent out of shape
- Ruing the aerobics
- Ruing the run, perhaps
- Like some subjects
- Needing a masseuse
- In need of liniment
- Plenty angry
- Steamed up
- Nursing a grudge
- Word after saddle or cold
- Riled
- Angry
- In a snit
- Vexed
- Like bad losers
- Offended
- Cold ___ (fever blister)
- All in a huff
- Really teed off
- Raw spot on the skin
- In need of Bengay
- Hot
- Ready for a hot bath, maybe
- Sensitive to the touch
- Feeling achy
- Feeling miffed
- In need of a massage
- Requiring liniment
- Feeling angry
- Needing a massage
- Angry, informally
- Not happy
- Feeling yesterday's exercise
- Paying for exercise?
- Sight for ___ eyes
- Sensitive, as a subject
- Tender to the touch
- Thumb condition?
- Carrying a grudge
- Aching
- Very painful
- Saddle irritation
- Needing liniment, e.g.
- Worst kind of loser
- Harboring a grudge
- Touchy
- Type of thumb
- In need of an ice pack
- Needing to cool down
- Word with "thumb" or "loser"
- Word with throat or loser
- Thumb or throat condition, perhaps
- Feeling yesterday's exercise, perhaps
- Word with thumb or loser
- Mad about something
- Like a gym visitor the next day, maybe
- Not at all pleased
- Recovering from surgery
- Upset (at)
- In need of a backrub
- Ruing the workout, maybe
- Like some subjects or losers
- In need of a rubdown
- Needing kneading
- Like some eyes
- Needing ice, maybe
- Smarting
- A sight for ___ eyes
- Like a running back after a game
- Still mad
- In pain
- Achy and tender
- Feeling the workout afterwards
- Feeling stood-up, say
- Cross
- Like painful area
- Fuming
- Irate
- Wounded
- Spot to salve
- Mad
- Painful spot
- Irked
- Tender spot
- Filled with 25 Down
- See 9-Down
- Not losing well
- Blister, e.g.
- In a bad mood
- Like many, post-workout
- Feeling it in one's quads, say
- Tender, as muscles
- Achy after a workout
- Like a mover's muscles, say
- Not taking a loss well, say
- Hurt
- Embittered
- Angrily offended
- Having smarts?
- Painfully tender
- Type of thumb or loser
- Piqued
- Hopping mad
- Like a Monday morning quarterback?
- Not gracious, as a loser
- Achy from a workout
- Like one taken off the payroll, maybe
- Caker, for example
- Still aching
- Like a certain thumb
- Bearing a grudge
- Furious
- Not happy at all
- Bruised
- Nursing a grudge, say
- Feeling a long day of work
- Feeling the effects of a workout
- Bothered
- Aggravated
- Bad-tempered
- In a foul mood
- Fighting mad
- Bitter
- Seething
- Really ticked off
- Kind of spot or loser
- Needing ibuprofen
- In need of an ice bath, say
- Pretty miffed
- Pained
- Aching; tender
- Painful, as muscles
- Blister or scrape
- Feeling hurt
- Paying for a hard workout?
- Like a poor loser
- Type of loser or spot
- Feeling achey
- In need of Icy Hot
- Ill-tempered
- Needing a rubdown, perhaps
- Unlike a gracious loser
- Aggrieved
- Word before loser or thumb
- Needing a massage, perhaps
- Angered
- Wound
- Painful to the touch
- Needing a rub down
- Tender god of love comes back
- Tender god of love turns up
- Slightly mad
- A little bit pissed
- Strained from work
- Type of loser
- Saddle burn
- Tired after a show
- Tom Waits "Tango Till They're ___"
- Like rocker after an intense show
- The Color Red "___ Throat"
- Like battle of band losers
- Like throat after belting
- Like mosher, post-show
- It used to be very painful
- Pressing a variety of rose
- Wild rose, presumably red
- Painful - resentful
- Angered by, being sensitive
- Spot of aggravation
- Annoyed fly may be heard
- Inflamed, maybe
- Painfully sensitive
- Still upset
- Resentful god overthrown
- See 18
- See 16
- Cupid got up and, they say, saw red
- Upset when love isrejected
- Bruised son of Aphrodite northward goes
- Lingeringly upset
- ___ spot
- Needing to stretch
- Harboring a grudge, say
- Angry that love is upset
- Red Army unit once trapped ringleader
- Vexed about following in such a manner
- Bitter maxim is spoken
- Indignant lover gets sent up
- Maxim, we hear, is angry
- The rise of love is painful
- Creaking with pain
- Not in a forgiving mood
- Peevish
- Word with spot or sport
- Feeling a workout
- Feeling annoyed
- Like a bad loser
- Angry or achy
- So looking a bit red and tender
- Painful choice of directions?
- Rose can be very tender
- Fit to be tied
- In need of Bengay, maybe
- Needing kneading?
- Pained or peeved
- Like one finishing an ultramarathon
- Feeling yesterday's workout
- ___ loser
- In an angry mood
- ___ loser (bad sport)
- In a peeved mood
- Feeling put out
- In need of Absorbine Jr.
- In need of an ice bath
- Feeling the workout
- Feeling vexed
- The worst kind of loser
- Far from pleased
- In need of a massage, perhaps
- Angry enough, therefore, to take on again
- Steaming
- Word before "subject" or "loser"
- God returning to cross
- Like your legs after leg day
- Eager for a massage
- Like a back wanting kneading
- Thus, again, is painful
- Pricked by a wild rose?
- More than miffed
- Quite achy
- Like your whole body after moving, probably
- Like thighs after Leg Day
- Word before "loser" or "point"
- Like forearms after rock climbing
- Word before "spot" or "loser"
- Feeling the effects of a long shift, say
- Like legs after a barre class
- Irritated and achy
- Like arms after painting a room, perhaps
- Like abs after a lot of crunches
- Like an overworked pitcher's arm
- Like aching joints
- Achy from exercise
- Really ticked
- In need of a foam roller
- Like arms after lots of bicep curls
- Suffering after a workout
- Like legs after a long run
- Thus, again, makes one angry
- Hardly pleased
- Feeling yesterday's yoga class, perhaps
- Feeling the effects of too much exercise, say
- Really feeling it, so to speak
- Super achy
- Indignant
- Thus again is angry
- Like legs after a long hike, maybe
- Tender, like a runner after a marathon
- Really achy
- Feeling the effects of leg day
- Really feeling that cycling session
- Like feet after a race, perhaps
- Really mad
- Feeling the consequences of trying to nap on a plane
- Like legs after a marathon
- Having exercised too long
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - April 15, 2025
- Daily American - April 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 05, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 31, 2025
- Daily American - March 30, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 30, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 13, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 26, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 21, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 17, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 11, 2025
- Family Time - February 09, 2025
- USA Today - February 09, 2025
- USA Today - February 08, 2025
- Daily American - February 02, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 24, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 22, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 31, 2024
- Family Time - December 30, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 12, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 11, 2024
- Daily American - December 05, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 05, 2024
- USA Today - December 01, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 18, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 09, 2024
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