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Thesaurus > Related Words: sour

Words related to sour

Related / Similar Words: sourness, acidity, tartness, turn, ferment, work, acidify, acidulate, acetify, rancid, dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sullen, false, off-key, off, turned

Definition:
  • the property of being acidic;
  • the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth;
  • a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar;
  • go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out";
  • make sour or more sour;
  • smelling of fermentation or staleness;
  • 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;
  • inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key";
  • having a sharp biting taste;
  • in an unpalatable state; "sour milk";
  • one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons;

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    See Also: dry, soured, tasteful

    Hyponyms: acerbity, tartness, vinegariness, vinegarishness, acidity, acidulousness, whiskey sour, whisky sour

    Grouped Verbs: ferment, work

    Derivational Morphology: acidify, acidulate, acetify, zymosis, zymolysis, fermentation, fermenting, ferment, souring, vinegar, acetum, acid, sourness, acidity, tartness

    Anagrams: Rous


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