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Defenition of the word sour

    • Defenition of the word sour

      • Having an acid, sharp or tangy taste.
      • To make or become sour or disenchanted.
      • Moody and melancholic.
      • showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
      • inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"
      • in an unpalatable state; "sour milk"
      • having a sharp biting taste
      • one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
      • a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
      • make sour or more sour
      • smelling of fermentation or staleness
      • the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
      • go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"
      • the sharp taste of something acidic (as vinegar or lemon juice)
      • the property of being acidic
      • a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
      • go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"
      • showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper
      • go sour or spoil
      • showing a brooding ill humor
      • inaccurate in pitch
      • in an unpalatable state

    Synonyms for the word sour

      • acerbic
      • acetify
      • acid
      • acidify
      • acidity
      • acidulate
      • bad-tempered
      • bitter
      • curdle
      • dark
      • disagreeable
      • dour
      • embitter
      • false
      • ferment
      • glowering
      • glum
      • go off
      • go sour
      • harm
      • moody
      • morose
      • off
      • off-key
      • rancid
      • resentful
      • ruin
      • saturnine
      • sourness
      • spoil
      • sullen
      • taint
      • tart
      • tartness
      • turn
      • turned
      • unpleasant
      • vinegary

    Similar words in the sour

      • acerb
      • acerbic
      • acetose
      • acetous
      • acidic
      • acidulated
      • acidulent
      • acidulous
      • astringent
      • dry
      • ill-natured
      • inharmonious
      • lemonlike
      • lemony
      • malodorous
      • malodourous
      • sharp
      • sour
      • source
      • source's
      • sources
      • sourdough
      • sourdoughs
      • soured
      • sourer
      • sourest
      • souring
      • sourish
      • sourly
      • sourness
      • sourness's
      • sourpuss
      • sourpuss's
      • sourpusses
      • sours
      • subacid
      • tangy
      • tart
      • tasteful
      • unharmonious
      • vinegary

    Hyponyms for the word sour

      • acerbity
      • acidity
      • acidulousness
      • tartness
      • vinegariness
      • vinegarishness
      • whiskey sour
      • whisky sour

    Hypernyms for the word sour

      • change state
      • change taste
      • cocktail
      • gustatory perception
      • gustatory sensation
      • taste
      • taste perception
      • taste property
      • taste sensation
      • turn

    Antonyms for the word sour

      • dulcify
      • dulcorate
      • edulcorate
      • sweet
      • sweeten

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