Word.ws English Dictionary

footsore

footsore adjective: having sore feet, but perhaps also a certain sense of satisfaction, after walking or hiking too much.

Adjective

footsore (comparative more footsore, superlative most footsore)

  1. Having sore feet, but perhaps also a certain sense of satisfaction, after walking or hiking too much.
    • One yoke of cattle became so foot sore that they were unserviceable, and we were obliged to drive them behind the wagon.1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 31
    • A quarrelsome band of footsore sulky niggers trod on the heels of the donkey.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 219

Forms of footsore

comparativemore footsore
superlativemost footsore

Origin of footsore

From foot + sore.

Words formed from footsore

Questions about footsore

What does footsore mean?
Footsore means having sore feet, but perhaps also a certain sense of satisfaction, after walking or hiking too much.
What part of speech is footsore?
Footsore is an adjective.

Words near footsore in the dictionary

  1. footsock
  2. footsocks
  3. footsoldier
  4. footsoldiers
  5. footsoldiery
  6. footsore
  7. footsoreness
  8. footspeed
  9. footspur
  10. footspurs
  11. footstalk

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: footsore (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “footsore.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/footsore. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.