as in sore
causing or feeling bodily pain
unable to play in tomorrow's football game because of an achy right knee
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Recent Examples of achy
There are many reasons your child's stomach might be feeling queasy or achy.
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Ayesha Gulzar, Verywell Health, 31 Oct. 2024
Here’s how to tell what might be behind the achy tightness—and what to do about it to feel better, fast.
—Christa Sgobba, SELF, 7 Jan. 2025
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This 99.9% pure copper bracelet can help with achy muscles, tension, stress, and other health issues.
—Veronica Booth, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2024
The mostly Millennial demographic was not in the mood to mosh or jump, perhaps due to achy knees and work in the morning.
—Mars Salazar, Austin American-Statesman, 15 Nov. 2024
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Ayesha Gulzar, Verywell Health, 31 Oct. 2024
Here’s how to tell what might be behind the achy tightness—and what to do about it to feel better, fast.
—Christa Sgobba, SELF, 7 Jan. 2025
Find it on Amazon Healing and Stylish Copper Bracelet
This 99.9% pure copper bracelet can help with achy muscles, tension, stress, and other health issues.
—Veronica Booth, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2024
The mostly Millennial demographic was not in the mood to mosh or jump, perhaps due to achy knees and work in the morning.
—Mars Salazar, Austin American-Statesman, 15 Nov. 2024
See All Example Sentences for achy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for achy
Adjective
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Clevinger was eventually sidelined with a sore elbow and then needed disk replacement surgery on his neck on August 1, an operation that ended his season.—
Jared Wyllys,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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The 200-person pool is large enough for swimming, but most guests just soak sore muscles in the mineral-rich water (between 98 and 104 degrees Fahrenheit) while gazing at Mount Rundle and other snowy peaks.—
Cindy Hirschfeld,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Somebody Somewhere is tiny: a gorgeous, introspective, intimate story about a woman with devastatingly mundane problems whose chief obstacle is her own aching sense of grief and dislocation.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
9 Dec. 2024
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In this novel about the shape-shifting nature of love, Parsons captures Kit’s grief in aching and honest terms.—
Annabel Gutterman,
TIME,
6 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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An ultimate taboo, disclosing the impulse to kill one's child must be an unthinkably painful admission.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
16 Feb. 2025
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Watching De Zerbi trying to use a threadbare squad last season was painful at times.—
Andy Naylor,
The Athletic,
13 Feb. 2025
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“Achy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/achy. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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