Sore

Definition: Sore

Sore

Adjective

1. Hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw".

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

3. (informal) 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".

4. Inflamed and painful; "his throat was raw"; "had a sore throat".

Noun

1. An open skin infection.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sore" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Sore

Discontent

In high dudgeon, in a fume, in the sulks, in the dumps, in bad humor; glum, sulky; sour as a crab; soured, sore; out of humor, out of temper.

Disease

Sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple, wen; (swelling); carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue; rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy; eruption, rash, breaking out.

Pain

Source of irritation, source of annoyance; wound, open sore; sore subject, skeleton in the closet; thorn in the flesh, thorn in one's side; where the shoe pinches, gall and wormwood.

Sharp, acute, sore, severe, grave, hard, harsh, cruel, biting, caustic; cutting, corroding, consuming, racking, excruciating, searching, grinding, grating, agonizing; envenomed; catheretic, pyrotic.

Adjective: in pain, in a state of pain, full of pain; Noun: suffering; Verb: pained, afflicted, worried, displeased; aching, griped, sore; (physical pain); on the rack, in limbo; between hawk and buzzard.

Physical Pain

Painful; aching. Verb: sore, raw.

Noun: pain; suffering, sufferance, suffrance; bodily pain, physical pain, bodily suffering, physical suffering, body pain; mental suffering; dolour, ache; aching. Verb: smart; shoot, shooting; twinge, twitch, gripe, headache, stomach ache, heartburn, angina, angina pectoris; hurt, cut; sore, soreness; discomfort, malaise; cephalalgia, earache, gout, ischiagra, lumbago, neuralgia, odontalgia, otalgia, podagra, rheumatism, sciatica; tic douloureux, toothache, tormina, torticollis.

Resentment

Offended; Verb: waxy, acharne; wrought, worked up; indignant, hurt, sore; set against.

Affront, provocation, offense; indignity; (insult); grudge, crow to pluck, bone to pick, sore subject, casus belli; ill turn, outrage.

Sensibility

Sore point, sore place; where the shoe pinches.

Unwillingness

Adverb: unwillingly; Adjective: grudgingly, with a heavy heart; with a bad, with an ill grace; against one's wishes, against one's will, against the grain, sore against one's wishes, sore against one's will, sore against one's grain; invita Minerva; a contre caeur; malgre soi; in spite of one's teeth, in spite of oneself; nolens volens; (necessity); perforce; under protest; no; not for the world, far be it from me.

Crosswords: Sore

Indonesian (afternoon, verper).

The loser will be taunted and booed until my throat is sore! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

You're a sore loser. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

He sticks out like a sore thumb. (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; writing credit: Mario Van Peebles)

Let's get down onto the floor and move until we're sore! (You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's Sleepover Party; writing credit: Michael Kruzan)

Until my finger gets sore. (Press Gang; writing credit: Steven Moffat)

Lost control and rang your bell, I was sore (Silhouettes; performing artist: Herman's Hermits)

The sea is swells like a sore head (Electrical Storm; performing artist: U2)

Kigeki sore ga otoko no ikiru michi (1970)

A Sight for Sore Eyes (2003)

Sore ga kotae da! (1997)

Yawara! Sore yuke koshinuke kizzu! (1992)

Sore Throat (1985)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Body Care Just for Men: Nautual Health Tips & Herbal Formulas for Skin Protection, Sore Muscle Relief, Aftershaves, Tonics, and More (reference)

• Saddle Sore (Saddle Club, No 66) (reference)

• Sight for Sore Eyes (Rugrats (8X8 Paperback), 8) (reference)

• Sore Loser (Broom-Hilda) (reference)

• Sore Sites (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Sore Losers (reference)

• Poison: Sight for Sore Ears (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Swining/Red Raw & Sore (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Soft Shells - Sore Nipples (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

This chancre is located on the posterior vaginal fourchette (where labia minora meet). The primary stage of syphilis is often marked by the appearance of a single sore � called a chancre, which is usually firm, round, small, and painless. Credit: CDC.

The incubation period for Ebola HF ranges from 2 to 21 days with abrupt onset of illness, characterized by fever, headache, joint and muscle aches, sore throat, and weakness, followed by diarrhea, vomiting, and stomach pain. Credit: CDC.

Herpes simplex lesion of lower lip, second day after onset. HSV, cold sore. Credit: CDC.

A patient with typical "nickel and dime" lesions on the face, which can develop during secondary syphilis. Other symptoms that may occur during this stage are mild fever, fatigue, headache, sore throat, patchy hair loss, and swollen lymph glands. Credit: CDC.

This patient developed eyebrow alopecia during the secondary stage of syphilis. Other symptoms that may occur during this stage are mild fever, fatigue, headache, sore throat and swollen lymph glands. Credit: CDC.

Multiple primary chancres of the labium minora. The primary stage of syphilis is usually marked by the appearance of a single sore called a chancre. The chancre is usually firm, round, small, and painless. Credit: CDC.

This school girl is at home with a sore throat and the doctor checks her heart. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by T. Farkas..

Sore Throat / Peggy Bacon. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

He found his rooms tenanted by a negro boy bound and gagged, bruised and sore. Credit: Library of Congress.

Attention! : a sore that does not heal. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

At first, when some certain kind of regiment was once approved, it may be nothing was then farther thought upon for the manner of governing, but all permitted unto their wisdom and discretion which were to rule, till by experience they found this for all parts very inconvenient, so as the thing which they had devised for a remedy, did indeed but increase the sore which it should have cured. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Marius, moreover, was in sore affliction.

His sins trickled from his lips, one by one, trickled in shameful drops from his soul festering and oozing like a sore, a squalid stream of vice.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

A severe cough or sore throat. (references)

Watch for sore areas or red and white patches. (references)

Earache, sore throat and rash are very uncommon. (references)

Business

Small packs of Paracetamol (containing 6 tablets) have been available in kiosks (newspaper stands) and petrol station shops for a few years, and there is a proposal to increase this list to include products such as sore throat remedies. (references)

Economic History

Zimbabwe

Traditionally, however, investment by Zimbabweans outside their country has been something of a sore point with the GOZ, which suspects that they may actually represent disinvestment from Zimbabwe or capital flight, rather than true foreign investment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Sore

Expressions using "sore": a running sore ♦ an open sore ♦ be like a bear with a sore head ♦ be sore ♦ be sore all over ♦ bed sore ♦ chrome sore ♦ cold sore ♦ Fever sore ♦ get sore ♦ Gold sore ♦ have a sore throat ♦ i have a sore eye ♦ in a sore need ♦ it's a sight for sore eyes! ♦ Malignant sore throat ♦ open sore ♦ oriental sore ♦ pressure sore ♦ putrid sore throat ♦ rub sore ♦ running sore ♦ saddle sore ♦ septic sore throat ♦ sore affliction ♦ sore eyes ♦ sore falcon ♦ sore feet ♦ sore loser ♦ sore on the lips ♦ sore place ♦ sore point ♦ sore spot ♦ sore subject ♦ sore throat ♦ streptococcal sore throat ♦ suppurating sore ♦ touch smb. on a sore place ♦ tropical sore ♦ ulcerated sore throat ♦ veldt sore ♦ weak sore ♦ wood sore. Additional references.

Beginning with "sore": sore-burnt, sore-eyed, sore-infested, sore-lipped, sore-ridden, sore-thumb-ski-bums.

Ending with "sore": cold-sore, eye-sore, foot-sore, saddle-sore.

Albanian

vend i lënduar, ulcerë (canker, ulcer), plagë (blight, burn, gash, hurt, lesion, slash, sword cut, wound), i prekur (affected, aghast, hurt, moved, resentful, stricken, touchable, touched), i pezmatuar, i lënduar (grieved, hurt, pained), i dhimbshëm (distressful, distressing, dolorous, lamentable, painful, sorrowful). (various references)

Arabic 

‏موجع (aching, agonizing, causing pain, distressed, excruciating, grievous, intense pain, painful, tormenting), ‏متقرح, ‏متألم (suffering, torturer), ‏مؤلم (aching, agonizing, causing pain, distressful, distressing, excruciating, grievous, painful, sad, sorrowful, tormenting, tormentor), ‏مثير (agitating, breathtaking, electrifying, excitant, excitative, exciting, fomenting, galvanizing, hair raising, impetus, incentive, inciting, inspiring, instigating, irritative, provocative, provoking, rousing, sensational, spectacular, stimulant, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, thrilling), ‏قرحة (slough, ulcer), ‏قرح (blister, botch, gall, ulcerate), ‏حساس على نحو موجع, ‏حزين (afflicted, cheerless, dejected, depressed, doleful, dolorous, downcast, drear, dreary, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholic, miserable, mournful, pathetic, plaintive, rueful, sad, sorrowful, sorry, sullen, unhappy, wailful, weary, wistful, woeful), ‏على نحو موجع, ‏جدد الجراح, ‏جدد الأحزان, ‏إلتهاب (inflammation), ‏بلوي, ‏بلاء (curse, hardship, ill, illness, inflexion, infliction, ordeal, plague, trouble, worry). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разранен, труден (arduous, awkward, complex, difficile, difficult, dodgy, formidable, heavy, knotty, laborious, lively, painful, perplexed, perplexing, pick-and-shovel, rocky, spiny, stroppy, taxing, thorny, ticklish, tight, tough, tricky, troublesome, uphill, warm), тежък (cumbrous, dense, difficult, distressing, faint, grave, grievous, grinding, hammering, hard, heavy, hefty, high, hulking, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lumping, lumpish, lumpy, massive, massy, muggy, onerous, painful, plodding, ponderous, robust, rugged, sad, severe, shrewd, sledgehammer, slow, smart, smashing, soggy, solemn, stiff, stodgy, taxing, thorny, tight, tough, traumatic, trying, unwieldy, uphill, weighty), тежко (badly, heavily, rough, severely, sorely), възпалено място, възпален (bloodshot, raspy, ulcered, ulcerous), огорчен (afflicted, aggrieved, embittered, pained, wry), наранено място, наранен (wounded), мъчително (hard, heavily), болно място (peeve, susceptibilities, tender spot), болезнен (afflictive, diseased, morbid, painful, peccant, sick, torturous, unsound, wicked), подсечен (chapped, cracked), подлютен (ulcerous), подбит (indermined, injured). (various references)

Chinese 

疼痛 (ache). (various references)

Czech

zapálený (on fire), otlaèený, opruzený, odřený (bare, chafed, raw, scratched), dráždivý (excitable, irritable, irritant, poignant, stimulant, stimulating), citlivý (delicate, feeling, impressionable, open-hearted, responsive, sensitive, susceptible, tender, thin-skinned, vexed), bolestivý (distressing, hurtful, painful), bolavý, bolavé místo, bolák (abscess). (various references)

Danish

kromsår (chrome hole, chrome sore, chrome ulcer, chrome ulceration, pigeonneau), angina faucium (angina, cynanche, quinsy, sore throat), chromsår (chrome hole, chrome sore, chrome ulcer, chrome ulceration, pigeonneau), daekke et saar (to cover a sore), desert sore (desert sore), ecthyma contagiosum (contagious pustular dermatitis of sheep, orf, sore mouth, sour mouth), halsbetændelse (angina, quinsy, sore throat, tonsillitis), angina (angina, quinsy), koppeinfektion hos faar (contagious pustular dermatitis of sheep, orf, sore mouth, sour mouth), veldt sore (desert sore), Natal-sår (natal sore), oasebyld (oasis sore), ondt i halsen (angina, quinsy, sore throat), orf (contagious ecthyma, contagious pustular dermatitis of sheep, orf, sore mouth, sour mouth), orientbyld (Aleppo boil, Bagdad boil, caneotica, cat-boil, Delhi boil, Delhi sore, Deli fever, Leishmania tropica, leishmaniose, oriental boil, oriental sore), pigeonneau (chrome hole, chrome sore, chrome ulcer, chrome ulceration, pigeonneau), rossignol des tanneurs (chrome hole, chrome sore, chrome ulcer, chrome ulceration, pigeonneau), kongagioes pustulaer dermatitis (contagious pustular dermatitis of sheep, orf, sore mouth, sour mouth). (various references)

Dutch

zweer (ulcer). (various references)

Esperanto

ulcero (ulcer). (various references)

Faeroese

svullur (abscess, tumor, tumour, ulcer), sár (injury, ulcer, wound). (various references)

Farsi 

مبرم (Demanding, Imperious, Urgent), سخت (Adjacent, Chronic, Crusty, Demanding, Difficult, Dogged, Dour, Eburnated, Exquisite, Grave, Grim, Rigid, Rigorous, Rocky, Rugged, Serious, Severe, Steely, Stratify, Stringent, Strong, Troublesome), زخم (Gash, Scotch, Trauma, Wound), جای زخم , جراحت (Lesion, Lymph, Stricture, Wound), ریشناک , ریش (Barb, Beard, Ulcer, Ulcerous, Whisker), دلریش کننده , دردناک (Achy, Angry, Grievous, Painful), دشوار (Arduous, Difficult, Hard, Inexplicable, Intolerable, Laborious, Onerous, Slippery, Spiny, Sticky, Strait, Tough, Uphill). (various references)

Finnish

kipeä (ill, sick), hellä (affectionate, tender), haavautuma (ulcer), haavainen (ulcerative, ulcerogenic), arka (careful, faint-hearted, sensitive, shy, tender, timid, timorous). (various references)

French

sensible, ulcère, plaie, irrité, inflammation, enflammé, endolori, douloureux (sorrowful). (various references)

Frisian

maachswolm (ulcer). (various references)

German

wund (injured, raw, wounded), weh (ache, aching, alas, annoyance, disappointment, grief, hurt, pain, woe), Geschwür (abscess, boil, ulcer, virus). (various references)

Greek 

έλκοσ (ulcer), πληγή (canker, injury, laceration, lesion, minus, plague, scourge, wound), ποινών, πονεμένοσ (doleful), φλογισμένοσ, επώδυνοσ (painful). (various references)

Hebrew 

מכאיב (dolorous, painful), מצער (dearth, deplorable, distressing, fewness, grievous, lamentable, littleness, paucity, regrettable, sad, saddening, smallness, sorrowful), לכאוב (ache, feel pain, hurt, pain, smart, sting, suffer), פצע (bruise, cut, hurt, injury, slash, wound), ע� ין כאוב, כואב (aching, painful, sick), כאוב (aching, painful), �"לקת (fever, inflammation), � ושא כאוב, � פ�'ע (casualty, injured, pained, wounded). (various references)

Hungarian

fájó (aching, ailing, suffering). (various references)

Indonesian

luka (hurt, wound), koreng (scab, ulceration). (various references)

Italian

seccato (annoyed, bothered, fed up), ulcera (abscess, ulcer), piaga (fester, nuisance, weal, welt), irascibile (bad tempered, cantankerous, choleric, crotchety, crusty, irascible, pettish, quick tempered, sharp-tempered, short, short tempered, snorty), infiammazione (inflammation), doloroso (aching, achy, distressing, dolorous, grievous, painful, sad, woeful, woesome), dolorante (aching), dolente (aching, moanful, painful, sorrowful, tender), delicato (dainty, delicate, fine, gentle, maidenly, refined, sensitive, slight, soft, subtile, subtle, tender, thin, ticklish, touchy, tricky). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

痛み (ache, distress, grief, pain). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いたみ (ache, bruise, damage, distress, grief, pain). (various references)

Korean 

아�"� (ill, sick). (various references)

Manx

seiyjagh (agitating, agitative, agitatorial, calamitous, mournful, sad, woeful), piandagh (painful, smart), jiargey (chafe, red), gonnagh (aching, painful, peevish, smart), crem (ailment), ching (disordered, ill, nauseated, painful, ulcer), aggad (deep cut, nick, notch, step). (various references)

Pig Latin

oresay

Portuguese

úlcera (canker, fester, ulcer). (various references)

Romanian

sagnã, ranã (cut, gall, hurt, injury, raw, scar, slash, stab, wound), plagã (canker, pest, pestilence, scourge, wound), nenorocire (accident, affliction, bale, bane, blow, calamity, catastrophe, curse, disaster, distress, evil, ill, misadventure, misery, misfortune, need, reverse, rod, scourge, trouble), inflamat, inflamaţie (boil, heat, inflammation, swell), amar (bitter, bitterly, bitterness, dreadful, gall, poignant, rude, salt, severe, sour, suffering). (various references)

Russian 

язва (canker, pest, ulcer), раздражающий (exasperating, grating, irritating, irritative, nerve racking, nerve-racking, provoking, vexing), воспаленный (bloodshot), наболевший (painful), больной (ailing, apoplectic, case, diseased, ill, inmate, out of health, patient, sick), больное место (susceptibilities). (various references)

Scottish

goirt (painful, salt, sour). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ranjavo mesto (gall, raw), ranjav (raw), rana (cut, injury, trauma, wound), bolan (aching, ailing, dolorous, excruciating, grievous, pained, painful). (various references)

Spanish

dolorido (aching, heartsick, pained, painful, plaintive, tender), úlcera (bedsore, ulcer). (various references)

Sranan

soro (injury, ulcer, wound). (various references)

Swahili

kidonda (ulcer). (various references)

Swedish

sårig (raw, ulcerous), ömt ställe (quick), öm (affectionate, fond, loving, raw, tender). (various references)

Thai

เจ็บปว�", โกรธแค้น. (various references)

Turkish

yaralı (casualty, injured, scarred, stricken, wounded), yara (bruise, canker, cut, hurt, injury, lesion, raw, scotch, trauma, ulcer, wound), vahim (desperate, desperately, fatal, forbidding), kızgın (angry, angry with, annoyed, ardent, baking, black, boiling, cross, dyspeptic, fervent, fierce, fiery, flaming, frowning, furious, glowing, hot, hot-blooded, huffy, in a glow, in a pet, in a tiff, incensed, indignant, indignantly, inflamed, irate, ireful, mad, pissed off, red-hot, snappish, vexed, wild, wroth), kırgın (chagrined, disappointed, disgruntled, displeased, hurt, injured, offended, vexed, wroth), iltihaplı (angry, inflammatory, mattery, purulent, running), hassas (brittle, climacteric, critical, delicate, emotional, exquisite, fair, feeling, fine, impressible, impressionable, nice, passibile, precision, queasy, quick, raw, responsive, rose water, sensible, sensitive, slippery, spoony, squeamish, susceptible, susceptive, tender, thin-skinned, ticklish, tickly, touchy), fena halde (badly, grossly, sorely, unpleasantly), feci şekilde (sorely, tragically, tragicly), şiddetle (amain, drastically, faithfully, forcibly, heavily, heavy, hot, keenly, lustily, roundly, severely, sharp, sorely, strenuously, strong, strongly, violently), alıngan (easily offended, edgy, fragile, irritable, pettish, petulant, sensitive, squeamish, stuffy, susceptible, susceptive, swift to take offence, techy, tender, testy, tetchy, thin skin, ticklish, tickly, touchy, umbrageous), acıyan (aching, pitying), ağrıyan (aching), ağrılı (aching), öfkeli (angry, bristly, dyspeptic, enraged, furious, heated, hot-blooded, ill-conditioned, in a pet, incensed, indignant, inflamed, ireful, pissed off, purple in the face, rabid, rampant, red-hot, snotty, spunky, vehement, waxy, white hot, with his hackles up, wrathful, wrathy, wroth, wrought up). (various references)

Turkmen 

peюehorda (ulcer). (various references)

Ukrainian

синець (bruise, shiner, squat, suffusion, wipe), хворий (aching, ailing, case, dicky, diseased, ill, invalid, pasty, poorly, sick, sickish, sickly, stricken), ображений (aggrieved, humiliated, injured, pained, resentful, snuffy), болісний (afflictive, bitter, cruel, distressful, dolorous, excruciating, fell, harrowing, poignant, racking), болячка (cancer, stigma), дразливий (choleric, crabby, crusty, fractious, huffish, pettish, quick tempered, splenic, techy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vết thương (hurt), tức tối; bu�"n phiền l� m đau đớn, nghiêm trọng, nỗi đau lòng (soreness), gay go (arduously, rough, severse, trying), gắt như mắn tôm cảnh tượng vui, chỗ đau, cảnh tượng dễ chịu điểm dễ l� m chạm lòng, đau đớn tức giận, đau (grievous), ác nghiệt cau cau có có, ác nghiệt (cruel, cruelly, harsh), ác liệt (fierce, outrageous, slashing). (various references)

Welsh

ysig (bruised, sprained), tost (acute, austere, bitter, ill, severe, sharp, sick), gweli (wound), dybryd (arrant, dire, flagrant), dolurus (blear), dolur (ailment, grief), cornwyd (abscess, boil), clwyfus (sick, wounded), briw (broken, bruised, wound), adwythig (baneful, cruel, evil, malignant, sick). (various references)

ecthyma contagiosum, ulcera, ulcere, ulceribus, ulceris, ulcus, vomica. (various references)

sar. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "sore": sorehead, soreheaded, soreheads, sorel, sorels, sorely, soreness, sorenesses, sorer, sores, sorest. (additional references)

Words ending with "sore": bedsore, eyesore, footsore, heartsore, saddlesore, tussore. (additional references)

Words containing "sore": bedsores, censored, cosponsored, eyesores, footsoreness, footsorenesses, precensored, scissored, sponsored, tsores, tussores, uncensored, visored. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sore" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Msboro, osr, Osra, osre, psora, sare, sarei, Sarek, Sarreqi, Serre, Sgorr, siore, sirex, sirree, sjord, skor, skore, skorea, skra, skree, skru, skrue, slore, soare, sobe, sobre, soce, sode, soee, soeh, soer, sofe, soge, Sogea, soire, soirre, soje, soor, soory, sor, soral, sorbey, sorce, sored, soren, soret, sorez, sorg, sorge, sorie, sork, sorl, sorle, sorne, sorp, sorre, sorred, sorte, sorub, sorue, sorug, sorx, Soryu, soue, sove, sowe, soxe, soye, soze, spre, sre, sreb, sreo, sro, srove, stre, suare, suore, suorey, suri, surra, svoe, syre, zor, zore, zure. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: eros, ores, roes, rose.

-1 letter: ers, oes, ore, ors, ose, res, roe, ser.

-2 letters: er, es, oe, or, os, re, so.

+1 letter: arose, bores, brose, ceros, cores, corse, doers, doser, erose, euros, fores, froes, goers, gores, gorse, heros, hoers, horse, lores, loser, mores, morse, ogres, omers, orles, osier, overs, oyers, pores, poser, prose, redos, repos, resod, resow, robes, roles, roose, ropes, rosed, roses, roset, rotes, roues, rouse, roves, score, senor, serow, servo, shoer, shore, snore, sober, sorel, sorer, sores, sower, spore, store, swore, tores, torse, verso, worse, yores, zeros.

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