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sour in WordNet English dictionary
verb- make sour or more sour
sour acidify acidulate acetify
- go sour or spoil
"The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"
sour turn ferment work
noun- the property of being acidic
sourness sour acidity
- the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
sour sourness tartness
- a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
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"
dark dour glowering glum moody morose saturnine sour sullen
- inaccurate in pitch
"a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"
false off-key sour
- in an unpalatable state
"sour milk"
off sour turned
- smelling of fermentation or staleness
sour rancid
- having a sharp biting taste
sour
- one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
sour
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University