From Wiktionary.org:
Adjective[edit]
sore (comparative sorer, superlative sorest)
- Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
- Her feet were sore from walking so far.
- Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation. [quotations ▼]
- Dire; distressing.
- The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.
- (informal) Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
- Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers.
- (obsolete) Criminal; wrong; evil.
Noun
sore (plural sores)