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sour

• (s) smelling of fermentation or staleness rancid,
• (a) having a sharp biting taste
• (s) one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
• (s) in an unpalatable state
  • sour milk
  turned, off,
• (s) inaccurate in pitch
  • a false (or sour) note
  • her singing was off key
  off-key, false,
• (s) 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
  glowering, moody, morose, sullen, glum, saturnine, dour, dark,

Nouns

• (n) a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
• (n) the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth sourness, tartness,
• (n) the property of being acidic acidity, sourness,

Verbs

• (v) go sour or spoil
  • The milk has soured
  • The wine worked
  • The cream has turned--we have to throw it out
  ferment, turn, work,
• (v) make sour or more sour acetify, acidify, acidulate,

Synonyms

rancid ferment turn work sourness tartness acetify acidify acidulate acidity turned off off-key false glowering moody morose sullen glum saturnine dour dark

Antonyms

sweet dulcify dulcorate edulcorate sweeten

See also

dry soured tasty

Words of close approximity