'Sour' definitions:
Definition of 'sour'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Smelling of fermentation or staleness [syn: sour, rancid]
adjective
Having a sharp biting taste [ant: sweet]
adjective
One of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
adjective
adjective
Inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key" [syn: false, off-key, sour]
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" [syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen]
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 [syn: sour, sourness, tartness]
noun
verb
Go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out" [syn: sour, turn, ferment, work]
verb
Definition of 'Sour'
From: GCIDE
- Sour \Sour\, a. [Compar. Sourer; superl. Sourest.] [OE. sour, sur, AS. s?r; akin to D. zuur, G. sauer, OHG. s?r, Icel. s?rr, Sw. sur, Dan. suur, Lith. suras salt, Russ. surovui harsh, rough. Cf. Sorrel, the plant.]
- 1. Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart. [1913 Webster]
- All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply. "A sour countenance." --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- He was a scholar . . . Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Afflictive; painful. "Sour adversity." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh. [1913 Webster]
- Sour dock (Bot.), sorrel.
- Sour gourd (Bot.), the gourdlike fruit {Adansonia Gregorii}, and Adansonia digitata; also, either of the trees bearing this fruit. See Adansonia.
- Sour grapes. See under Grape.
- Sour gum (Bot.) See Turelo.
- Sour plum (Bot.), the edible acid fruit of an Australian tree (Owenia venosa); also, the tree itself, which furnished a hard reddish wood used by wheelwrights. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Acid; sharp; tart; acetous; acetose; harsh; acrimonious; crabbed; currish; peevish. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sour'
From: GCIDE
- Sour \Sour\, n. A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sour'
From: GCIDE
- Sour \Sour\, v. t. [AS. s?rian to sour, to become sour.]
- 1. To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances. [1913 Webster]
- So the sun's heat, with different powers, Ripens the grape, the liquor sours. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To make cold and unproductive, as soil. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable. [1913 Webster]
- To sour your happiness I must report, The queen is dead. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly. "Souring his cheeks." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Pride had not sour'd nor wrath debased my heart. --Harte. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sour'
From: GCIDE
- Sour \Sour\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Soured; p. pr. & vb. n. Souring.] To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity. [1913 Webster]
- They keep out melancholy from the virtuous, and hinder the hatred of vice from souring into severity. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sour'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abrupt,
- absonant,
- acerb,
- acerbate,
- acerbic,
- acerbity,
- acescency,
- acescent,
- acetify,
- acid,
- acidic,
- acidify,
- acidity,
- acidulant,
- acidulate,
- acidulated,
- acidulent,
- acidulous,
- acidulousness,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- aftertaste,
- agent provocateur,
- aggravate,
- amaroidal,
- amplify,
- annoy,
- asperous,
- astringent,
- atonal,
- augment,
- bad,
- bad-tempered,
- bilious,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bitter as gall,
- blown,
- bread-and-butter pickle,
- brusque,
- build up,
- cacophonous,
- caustic,
- chokecherry,
- choleric,
- churlish,
- coarse,
- crab,
- crab apple,
- crabbed,
- crabby,
- cracked,
- cranky,
- cross,
- crusty,
- curdle,
- curdled,
- curt,
- cutting,
- deepen,
- deteriorate,
- diaphonic,
- dill pickle,
- disagreeable,
- disconsonant,
- discontented,
- discordant,
- disenchant,
- disharmonic,
- disharmonious,
- dislikable,
- displeasing,
- dissonant,
- distasteful,
- dry,
- dryness,
- dyspeptic,
- edgy,
- embitter,
- embittered,
- enhance,
- enlarge,
- envenom,
- escharotic,
- exacerbate,
- exasperate,
- ferment,
- fermented,
- flat,
- flavor,
- frowy,
- gamy,
- gloomy,
- go bad,
- go off,
- gone off,
- grating,
- green,
- green apple,
- greenness,
- grouchy,
- gust,
- hard,
- harsh,
- heat up,
- heighten,
- high,
- hot up,
- hyperacidity,
- ill-natured,
- ill-tempered,
- immelodious,
- impatient,
- increase,
- inharmonic,
- inharmonious,
- intensify,
- irritate,
- irritating,
- jaundiced,
- keen,
- lemon,
- lime,
- magnify,
- make acute,
- make worse,
- mordant,
- morose,
- musicless,
- nasty,
- nonmelodious,
- nose-tickling,
- off,
- off-key,
- off-tone,
- out of pitch,
- out of tone,
- out of tune,
- palate,
- peeve,
- peevish,
- penetrating,
- petulant,
- pickle,
- pickled,
- piercing,
- piquant,
- poignant,
- provoke,
- pungency,
- pungent,
- rancid,
- rank,
- raucous,
- reechy,
- relish,
- rough,
- salt,
- sapidity,
- sapor,
- savor,
- savoriness,
- sec,
- severe,
- sharp,
- sharpen,
- shrill,
- smack,
- snappish,
- sour as vinegar,
- sour balls,
- sour cream,
- sour grapes,
- sour pickle,
- sour-tempered,
- sourdough,
- soured,
- sourish,
- sourishness,
- sourness,
- spoil,
- spoiled,
- spoilt,
- stale,
- stinging,
- stomach,
- strident,
- strong,
- subacidity,
- sullen,
- sweet,
- tainted,
- tang,
- tart,
- tartish,
- tartishness,
- tartness,
- taste,
- terrible,
- testy,
- thankless,
- tongue,
- tooth,
- trenchant,
- tuneless,
- turn,
- turn sour,
- turned,
- ugly,
- unalluring,
- unappealing,
- unappetizing,
- unattractive,
- undelectable,
- undelicious,
- undesirable,
- unengaging,
- unenjoyable,
- unharmonious,
- uninviting,
- unlikable,
- unmelodious,
- unmusical,
- unpalatable,
- unpleasant,
- unpleasing,
- unripe,
- unripeness,
- unsavory,
- unsweet,
- unsweetened,
- unsweetness,
- untasteful,
- untunable,
- untuned,
- untuneful,
- unwelcome,
- verjuice,
- vex,
- vinegar,
- vinegariness,
- vinegarish,
- vinegarishness,
- vinegary,
- vitriolic,
- worsen,
- yogurt
Words containing 'Sour'
- Soured,
- Souring,
- Sourly,
- Sourness,
- Sours,
- Sour John,
- Sour Lake,
- Sour dock,
- Sour gourd,
- Sour grapes,
- Sour gum,
- Sour plum,
- Sour tupelo,
- sour bread,
- sour cherry,
- sour cream,
- sour fig,
- sour grass,
- sour mash,
- sour milk,
- sour note,
- sour orange,
- sour salt,
- soured cream,
- whiskey sour,
- whisky sour,
- Sour John, OK,
- Sour Lake, TX,
- sour cherry tree,
- sour mash whiskey,
- sour-tasting,
- sour-gum family,
- dour glowering glum moody morose saturnine sour sullen