n. an open skin infection

adj. roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark"

adj. hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw"

adj. causing misery or pain or distress; "it was a sore trial to him"; "the painful process of growing up"

n. an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration

n. a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat

n. a circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue

n. any break in the skin or an organ caused by violence or surgical incision

n. a torn ragged wound

n. an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off

adj. marked or motivated by concern with the alleviation of suffering

adj. showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity; "was charitable in his opinions of others"; "kindly criticism"; "a kindly act"; "sympathetic words"; "a large-hearted mentor"

adj. showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity; "was charitable in his opinions of others"; "kindly criticism"; "a kindly act"; "sympathetic words"; "a large-hearted mentor"

adj. given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality; "a tender heart"; "a tender smile"; "tender loving care"; "tender memories"; "a tender mother"

adj. difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject"

adj. characterized by mercy, and compassion: "compassionate toward disadvantaged people"; "kind to animals"; "a humane judge"

adj. causing an emotional disturbance; "his disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly"- Herb Caen; "an upsetting experience"

adj. morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"

adj. evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly

adj. having the nature of or resulting from malice; "malicious gossip"; "took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince"- Rudyard Kipling

adj. characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood"

adj. very bad in degree or extent; "a severe worldwide depression"; "the house suffered severe damage"

adj. quick to take offense

adj. quick to take offense

adj. marked by strong resentment or cynicism; "an acrimonious dispute"; "bitter about the divorce"

adj. incited, especially deliberately, to anger; "aggravated by passive resistance"; "the provoked animal attacked the child"

adj. marked by extreme anger; "the enraged bull attached"; "furious about the accident"; "a furious scowl"; "infuriated onlookers charged the police who were beating the boy"; "could not control the maddened crowd"

adj. characterized by anger; "a choleric outburst"; "an irascible response"

adj. angered at something unjust or wrong; "an indignant denial"; "incensed at the judges' unfairness"; "a look of outraged disbelief"; "umbrageous at the loss of their territory"

adj. vehemently incensed and condemnatory; "they trembled before the wrathful queen"; "but wroth as he was, a short struggle ended in reconciliation"

adj. showing scarcely suppressed anger; "her tone was...conversational although...her eyes were smoldering"- James Hensel

adj. causing a dull and steady pain; "my aching head"; "her old achy joints"

adj. causing misery or pain or distress; "it was a sore trial to him"; "the painful process of growing up"

adj. expressing pain or agony; "agonized screams"

adj. extremely painful

adj. difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill; "the arduous work of preparing a dictionary"

adj. (painful)

adj. painful from having the skin abraded

adj. keenly distressing to the mind or feelings; "poignant anxiety"

adj. causing great physical or mental suffering; "a wrenching pain"

adj. (of a rider) sore after riding a horse

adj. psychologically painful;"few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child";

adj. harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation"; "a vitriolic critique"

adj. harsh; "sharp criticism"; "a sharp-worded exchange"; "a tart remark"

adj. disagreeable; "I will not perform the ungrateful task of comparing cases of failure"- Abraham Lincoln

adj. harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "a dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie

adj. very unpleasant

adj. causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation; "the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles"; "it was mortifying to know he had heard every word"

adj. very unpleasant; "hellish weather"; "stop that god-awful racket"

adj. serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent"

adj. causing discomfort; "the unhappy truth"

adj. without beauty or charm