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Sour

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Definitions for Sour

noun
a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
noun
the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
Synonyms
sourness tartness
noun
the property of being acidic
Synonyms
sourness acidity
verb
go sour or spoil
Synonyms
turn ferment work
Examples
  1. The milk has soured
  2. The wine worked
  3. The cream has turned--we have to throw it out
verb
make sour or more sour
Synonyms
acidify acidulate acetify
adjective
smelling of fermentation or staleness
Synonyms
rancid
adjective
having a sharp biting taste
adjective
one of the four basic taste sensations
Examples
  1. like the taste of vinegar or lemons
adjective
in an unpalatable state
Synonyms
off turned
Examples
  1. sour milk
adjective
inaccurate in pitch
Synonyms
false off-key
Examples
  1. a false (or sour) note
  2. her singing was off key
adjective
showing a brooding ill humor
Synonyms
dark dour glowering glum moody morose saturnine sullen
Examples
  1. a dark scowl
  2. the proverbially dour New England Puritan
  3. a glum, hopeless shrug
  4. he sat in moody silence
  5. a morose and unsociable manner
  6. a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven
  7. a sour temper
  8. a sullen crowd

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