Sour

[saʊə] or ['saʊɚ]

Definition

(noun.) the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth.

(noun.) a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar.

(verb.) go sour or spoil; 'The milk has soured'; 'The wine worked'; 'The cream has turned--we have to throw it out'.

(verb.) make sour or more sour.

(adj.) smelling of fermentation or staleness .

(adj.) having a sharp biting taste .

(adj.) one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons .

Checker: Roy--From WordNet

Definition

(superl.) Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.

(superl.) Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned.

(superl.) Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply.

(superl.) Afflictive; painful.

(superl.) Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh.

(n.) A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.

(v. t.) To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances.

(v. t.) To make cold and unproductive, as soil.

(v. t.) To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable.

(v. t.) To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly.

(v. t.) To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes.

(v. i.) To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity.

Editor: Zeke

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. Acid, tart, pricked.[2]. Cross, crabbed, morose, surly, testy, touchy, cantankerous, crusty, fretful, peevish, petulant, pettish, snappish, waspish, snarling, cynical, froward, uncivil, rude, rough, harsh, ill-tempered, ill-natured.

v. a. [1]. Make acid, turn sour.[2]. Imbitter, make cross.

v. n. Turn sour, become acid.

Inputed by Byron

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Tart, rancid, coagulated, turned, harsh, crabbed, austere, morose, pungent,crusty, acid, churlish, bitter, acetous, acrimonious, peevish

ANT:Sweet, wholesome, untainted, mellow, genial, kindly

Typed by Camilla

Definition

adj. having a pungent acid taste: turned as milk: rancid: crabbed or peevish in temper: bitter: cold and wet as soil.—v.t. to make sour or acid: to make cross peevish or discontented.—v.i. to become sour or acid: to become peevish or crabbed.—n. Sour′-crout (see Sauer-kraut).—adj. Sour′-eyed morose-looking.—ns. Sour′-gourd the cream-of-tartar tree; Sour′ing vinegar: the crab-apple: the process in bleaching fabrics that follows the treatment with bleaching-powder consisting in treatment of the fabric with hydrochloric or sulphuric acid so as to wash out the lime.—adj. Sour′ish somewhat sour.—adv. Sour′ly in a sour manner: with acidity: with acrimony: discontentedly.—ns. Sour′ness the state of being sour: acidity: peevishness: discontent; Sour′-sop a tree of tropical America and its fruit closely allied to the custard-apple: (prov.) an ill-natured person.

Editor: Rena