Word Meanings - SORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Reddish brown; sorrel. Sore falcon. See Sore, n.,
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SORE)
- Sharp
- Thin
- fine
- keen
- shrewd
- discerning
- clever
- sarcastic
- acute
- pointed
- aculeated
- penetrating
- pungent
- acid
- shrill
- piercing
- afflictive
- distressing
- harsh
- severe
- cutting
- eager
- active
- ardent
- sore
- hard
- animated
- spirited
Related words: (words related to SORE)
- SPIRITUOUS
1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent; - DISCERNANCE
Discernment. - SHARPLY
In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon. - ARDENT
1. Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever. 2. Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes. Dryden. 3. Warm, applied - ANIMATING
Causing animation; life-giving; inspiriting; rousing. "Animating cries." Pope. -- An"i*ma`ting*ly, adv. - SHARPER
A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler. - CUTTHROAT
One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin. - SPIRITUALIZE
To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize - SHRILL-TONGUED
Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak. - AFFLICTIVELY
In an afflictive manner. - SHRILLNESS
The quality or state of being shrill. - ACULEATE
Having a sting; covered with prickles; sharp like a prickle. - POINT SWITCH
A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track. - SPIRITUOSITY
The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness. - POINTLESSLY
Without point. - AFFLICTIVE
Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior. - POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis - ACUTE-ANGLED
Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle. - SPIRITUAL-MINDED
Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n. - POINTAL
The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer. - SELF-ACTIVE
Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents. - PUBLIC-SPIRITED
1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly, - CHYLIFACTIVE
Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle. - COUNTERACTIVE
Tending to counteract. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - INANIMATION
Want of animation; lifeless; dullness. - DISPIRITED
Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n. - INTERPENETRATE
To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley. - STRAW-CUTTER
An instrument to cut straw for fodder. - RETROACTIVE
Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective. Beddoes. Retroactive law or statute , one which operates to make criminal or punishable, or in any way expressly to affect, acts done prior to - DETRACTIVE
1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.