Sour

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having a taste characteristic of that produced by acids; sharp, tart, or tangy.
  • adj. Made acid or rancid by fermentation.
  • adj. Having the characteristics of fermentation or rancidity; tasting or smelling of decay.
  • adj. Bad-tempered and morose; peevish: a sour temper.
  • adj. Displeased with something one formerly admired or liked; disenchanted: sour on ballet.
  • adj. Not measuring up to the expected or usual ability or quality; bad.
  • adj. Not having the correct or properly produced pitch: a sour note.
  • adj. Of or relating to excessively acid soil that is damaging to crops.
  • adj. Containing excessive sulfur compounds. Used of gasoline.
  • n. The sensation of sour taste, one of the four primary tastes.
  • n. Something sour.
  • n. A mixed drink made especially with whiskey, lemon or lime juice, sugar, and sometimes soda water.
  • v. To make or become sour.
  • v. To make or become disagreeable, disillusioned, or disenchanted.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
  • adj. Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
  • adj. Tasting or smelling rancid.
  • adj. Peevish or bad-tempered.
  • adj. Excessively acidic and thus infertile.
  • adj. Containing excess sulfur.
  • adj. Unfortunate or unfavorable.
  • n. The sensation of a sour taste.
  • n. A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
  • n. Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
  • v. To make or become sour.
  • v. To become disenchanted.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.
  • adj. Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned.
  • adj. Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose
  • adj. Afflictive; painful.
  • adj. Cold and unproductive
  • n. A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
  • v. To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour.
  • v. To make cold and unproductive, as soil.
  • v. To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable.
  • v. To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly.
  • v. To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar.
  • verb-intransitive. To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having an acid taste; sharp to the taste; tart; acid; specifically, acid in consequence of fermentation; fermented, and thus spoiled: as, sour bread; sour milk.
  • Harsh of temper; crabbed; peevish; austere; morose: as, a man of a sour temper.
  • Afflictive; hard to bear; bitter; disagreeable to the feelings; distasteful in any manner.
  • Expressing discontent, displeasure, or peevishness: as, a sour word.
  • Cold; wet; harsh; unkindly to crops: said of soil.
  • Coarse: said of grass.
  • Synonyms Acetous, acetose.
  • 2 and
  • Cross, testy, waspish, snarling, cynical.
  • n. Something sour or acid; something bitter or disagreeable.
  • n. Dirt; filth.
  • n. An acid punch.
  • n. In bleaching and dyeing:
  • n. A bath of buttermilk or sour milk, or of soured bran or rye-flour, used by primitive bleachers.
  • n. A weak solution of sulphuric or hydrochloric acid, used for various purposes. Compare souring, 5.
  • To become sour; become acid; acquire the quality of tartness or pungency to the taste, as by fermentation: as, cider sours rapidly in the rays of the sun.
  • To become peevish, crabbed, or harsh in temper.
  • To become harsh, wet, cold, or unkindly to crops: said of soil.
  • To make sour; make acid; cause to have a sharp taste, especially by fermentation.
  • To make harsh, crabbed, morose, or bitter in temper; make cross or discontented; embitter; prejudice.
  • To make harsh, wet, cold, or unkindly to crops: said of soil.
  • In bleaching, etc., to treat with a dilute acid.
  • To macerate and render fit for plaster or mortar, as lime.
  • Sourly; bitterly.
  • n. In drenching or puering skins, the old liquor which has become sour or turned.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
  • adj. having a sharp biting taste
  • v. go sour or spoil
  • adj. smelling of fermentation or staleness
  • adj. inaccurate in pitch
  • adj. in an unpalatable state
  • adj. showing a brooding ill humor
  • n. the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
  • n. the property of being acidic
  • adj. one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
  • v. make sour or more sour
  • Equivalent
    tart    sourish    lemony    astringent    subacid    acerbic    tangy    vinegarish    acidic    acidulent   
    Antonym
    sweeten   
    Verb Form
    soured    souring    sourness    sours   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    turn    change state    change taste   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    soured    souring   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    crabbed    acetose    tart    acrimonious    sharp    acid    peevish    acetous    harsh    currish   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Auer    Bower    Gower    Power    bour    bower    cower    dauer    devour    dour   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bitter    acrid    unpleasant    stale    harsh    nasty    sullen    oily    sarcastic    delicious