1. sour - noun
· a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
Hypernym(s): cocktail
2. sour - noun
· the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
Synonym(s): sourness, tartness
Hypernym(s): taste, taste_sensation, gustatory_sensation, taste_perception, gustatory_perception
3. sour - noun
· the property of being acidic
Hypernym(s): taste_property
4. sour - verb
· go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"
Synonym(s): turn, ferment, work
Hypernym(s): change_state, turn
5. sour - verb
· make sour or more sour
Synonym(s): acidify, acidulate, acetify
Hypernym(s): change_taste
Antonym(s): sweeten
6. sour - adjective
· smelling of fermentation or staleness
Synonym(s): rancid
7. sour - adjective
· having a sharp biting taste
Antonym(s): sweet
8. sour - adjective
· one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
9. sour - adjective
· in an unpalatable state; "sour milk"
10. sour - adjective
· inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"
11. 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"
Synonym(s): dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sullen
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