Sorer vs Sober - What's the difference?
sorer | sober |
(sore)
Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
* Tillotson
Dire; distressing.
(informal) Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
(obsolete) Criminal; wrong; evil.
(lb) Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).
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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
Sorely.
*1919 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs),
*:[… they] were often sore pressed to follow the trail at all, and at best were so delayed that in the afternoon of the second day, they still had not overhauled the fugitive.
An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
* Sir Walter Scott
A group of ducks on land. (See also: sord).
A young hawk or falcon in its first year.
A young buck in its fourth year.
mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait in the animal.
not drunk; not intoxicated
not given to excessive drinking of alcohol
* Book of Common Prayer
moderate; realistic; serious; not playful; not passionate; cool; self-controlled
* Dryden
* 2005 , .
dull; not bright or colorful
* Milton
subdued; solemn; grave
* Prior
* Alexander Pope
(often with up ) To make or become sober.
* Alexander Pope
(often with up ) To overcome or lose a state of intoxication.
As an adjective sorer
is (sore).As a noun sober is
friend.sorer
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Adjective
(head)sore
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(wikipedia sore)Adjective
(er)- Her feet were sore from walking so far.
- Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy.
- The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.
- Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers.
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* sight for sore eyes * sorely * soreness * sore pointAdverb
(-)Jungle Tales of Tarzan
Noun
(en noun)- They put ointment and a bandage on the sore .
- I see plainly where his sore lies.
Verb
Derived terms
* soringSee also
* blister * lesion * ulcerAnagrams
* ----sober
English
Adjective
(er)- a godly, righteous, and sober life, to the glory of Thy holy name
- No sober man would put himself into danger for the applause of escaping without breaking his neck.
- Which is the finest and soberest state possible.
- Twilight grey / Had in her sober livery all things clad.
- What parts gay France from sober Spain?
- See her sober over a sampler, or gay over a jointed baby.
Synonyms
* See also * See also * See alsoAntonyms
* (not drunk) drunkSee also
* teetotallerVerb
(en verb)- There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, / And drinking largely sobers us again.
- ''It took him hours to sober up .