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sour

noun

1 sour

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

2 sour

The taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth.

synonyms: sourness, tartness.

Polish: cierpkość

3 sour

The property of being acidic.

synonyms: acidity, sourness.

Polish: kwaśność

verb

1 sour

Go sour or spoil:
— The milk has soured.

synonyms: ferment, turn, work.

Roget 835: aggravate, render worse, heighten, embitter, sour; exacerbate; exasperate, envenom; enrage, provoke, tease.    add fuel to the fire, add fuel to the flame; fan the flame ... show more

Dutch: schiften, zuren

2 sour

Make sour or more sour.

synonyms: acetify, acidify, acidulate.

Roget 397: be sour; sour, turn sour etc. adj.; set the teeth on edge.    render sour etc. adj.; acidify, acidulate.   

Dutch: verzuren, zuren

adjective

1 sour

Smelling of fermentation or staleness.

synonym: rancid.

Roget 397: sour; acid, acidulous, acidulated; tart, crabbed; acetous, acetose; acerb, acetic; sour as vinegar, sourish, acescent, subacid [Chem]; ... show more

2 sour

Having a sharp biting taste.

3 sour

One of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons.

Polish: kwaśny

4 sour

In an unpalatable state:
— Sour milk.

synonyms: off, turned.

5 sour

Inaccurate in pitch:
— A false (or sour) note.

synonyms: false, off-key.

6 sour

Showing a brooding ill humor:
— A sour temper.

synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sullen.

Roget 901a: sullen, sulky; ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill-disposed; grouty [U.S.]; in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor; ... show more

Roget 895: discourteous, uncourteous; uncourtly; ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-behaved, ill-conditioned; unbred; unmannerly, unmannered; impolite, unpolite; unpolished, uncivilized, ... show more

Polish: posępny, chmurny, ponury


Moby thesaurus: abrupt, absonant, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acerbity, acescency, acescent, acetify, acid, acidic, acidify, acidity, acidulant, acidulate, acidulated, acidulent, acidulous, acidulousness, acrid ... show more.

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