<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>physically painful or sensitive, as a wound, hurt, or diseased part: a sore arm.</li><li>suffering bodily pain from wounds, bruises, etc.: He is sore because of all that exercise.</li><li>suffering mental pain; grieved, distressed, or sorrowful: to be sore at heart.</li><li>causing great mental pain, distress, or sorrow: a sore bereavement.</li><li>causing very great suffering, misery, hardship, etc.: sore need.</li><li>Informal: annoyed; irritated; offended; angered: He was sore because he had to wait.</li><li>causing annoyance or irritation: a sore subject.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a sore spot or place on the body.</li><li>a source or cause of grief, distress, irritation, etc.</li></ul><p><strong>Adverb</strong></p><ul><li>Archaic: sorely.</li></ul>