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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;
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:
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