sour in English dictionary

  • sour

    Meanings and definitions of "sour"

    • made rancid by fermentation etc
    • (of petroleum) containing excess sulphur
    • To make or become sour
    • To become disenchanted
    • adjective
      Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
    • adjective
      Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
    • adjective
      Tasting or smelling rancid.
    • adjective
      Peevish or bad-tempered.
    • adjective
      ( of soil) Excessively acidic and thus infertile.
    • adjective
      ( of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur.
    • adjective
      Unfortunate or unfavorable.
    • adjective
      (music)
      Off-pitch, out of tune.
    • noun
      The sensation of a sour taste.
    • noun
      A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
    • noun
      (by extension)
      Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
    • noun
      A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To make sour.
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To become sour.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To make disenchanted.
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To become disenchanted.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
    • verb
      To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
    • To make or become sour or disenchanted.
    • Having an acid, sharp or tangy taste.
    • Moody and melancholic.
    • having an acid, sharp or tangy taste
    • tasting or smelling rancid
    • peevish or bad-tempered
    • (of soil) excessively acid and thus infertile
    • made rancid by fermentation, etc.
    • adjective
      having a sharp biting taste
    • adjective
      inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"
    • adjective
      in an unpalatable state; "sour milk"
    • adjective
      one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
    • 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"
    • adjective
      smelling of fermentation or staleness
    • noun
      a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
    • noun
      the property of being acidic
    • noun
      the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
    • 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

    Synonyms of "sour" in English dictionary

    malodourous, work, dry are the top synonyms of "sour" in the English thesaurus.

    Antonyms of "sour" in English dictionary

    sweet, sweeten are the top antonyms of "sour" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of sour

    • sour ( comparative sourer, superlative sourest)
    • sour ( third-person singular simple present sours, present participle souring, simple past and past participle soured)
    • sour ( countable and uncountable;  plural  sours)
    • sour (comparative sourer, superlative sourest)
    • sour (countable and uncountable, plural sours)
    • sour (third-person singular simple present sours, present participle souring, simple past and past participle soured)
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