sour

1. (verb) go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"
Synonyms: ferment, turn
Related Words: change state, turn

2. (satellite adjective) smelling of fermentation or staleness
Synonyms: rancid

3. (verb) make sour or more sour
Synonyms: acetify, acidify, acidulate
Related Words: change taste
Antonyms: sweeten

4. (adjective) having a sharp biting taste
Antonyms: sweet

5. (satellite adjective) one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons

6. (noun) the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
Synonyms: sourness, tartness
Related Words: acidity, acidulousness, gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, taste, taste perception, taste sensation

7. (noun) a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
Related Words: cocktail, whiskey sour, whisky sour

8. (satellite adjective) in an unpalatable state; "sour milk"
Synonyms: off, turned

9. (noun) the sharp taste of something acidic (as vinegar or lemon juice)
Synonyms: acidity, sourness
Related Words: acerbity, tartness, taste property, vinegariness, vinegarishness

10. (satellite adjective) inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"
Synonyms: false, off-key

11. (satellite adjective) 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"
Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sullen



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