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| ADJECTIVE | 1 | sour, rancid | Smelling of fermentation or staleness |
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| 2 | sour | Having a sharp biting taste | |
| 3 | sour | One of the four basic taste sensations | |
| 4 | sour, off, turned | In an unpalatable state | |
| 5 | sour, false, off-key | Inaccurate in pitch | |
| 6 | sour, dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sullen | Showing a brooding ill humor | |
| NOUN | 1 | sour | A cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar |
| 2 | sour, sourness, tartness | The taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth | |
| 3 | sour, sourness, acidity | The property of being acidic | |
| VERB | 1 | sour, turn, ferment, work | Go sour or spoil |
| 2 | sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify | Make sour or more sour |
| Sounds | saw'er; saw'r |
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| Rhymes | bellflower, bower, brainpower, and 29 more rhymes in awer... |
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| Meaning | Smelling of fermentation or staleness. |
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| Synonyms | rancid |
| Similar to | malodorous, malodourous, unpeasant-smelling, ill-smelling, stinky |
| Nouns | sourness |
| Meaning | Having a sharp biting taste. |
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| Contrary | sweet |
| Similar | acerb, acerbic, astringent; acetose, acetous, vinegary, vinegarish; acidic, acid, acidulent, acidulous; lemony, lemonlike, sourish, tangy, tart; subacid |
| See also | dry; soured; tasty |
| Nouns | sourness |
| Meaning | One of the four basic taste sensations. Like the taste of vinegar or lemons. |
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| Similar to | tasty |
| Nouns | sourness; sourness, tartness |
| Meaning | In an unpalatable state. |
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| Examples | "sour milk" |
| Synonyms | off, turned |
| Similar to | soured |
| Nouns | sourness |
| Meaning | Inaccurate in pitch. |
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| Examples | "a false (or sour) note" |
| Synonyms | false, off-key |
| Similar to | inharmonious, unharmonious |
| Meaning | Showing a brooding ill humor. |
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| Examples | "a sour temper" |
| Synonyms | dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sullen |
| Similar to | ill-natured |
| Nouns | sourness |
| Adverbs | sourly |
| Meaning | A cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar. |
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| Broader | cocktail |
| Narrower | whiskey sour, whisky sour |
| Meaning | The taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth. |
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| Synonyms | sourness, tartness |
| Broader | taste, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception |
| Narrower | acidity, acidulousness |
| Verbs | sour |
| Meaning | The property of being acidic. |
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| Synonyms | sourness, acidity |
| Broader | taste property |
| Narrower | acerbity, tartness; vinegariness, vinegarishness |
| Verbs | sour |
| Meaning | Go sour or spoil. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s |
| Examples | "The milk has soured" |
| Synonyms | turn, ferment, work |
| Similar to | ferment, work |
| Caused by | ferment, work |
| Broader | change state, turn |
| Entailed by | brew |
| Nouns | souring |
| Meaning | Make sour or more sour. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Synonyms | acidify, acidulate, acetify |
| Contrary | sweeten, dulcify, edulcorate, dulcorate |
| Broader | change taste |
| Nouns | sour; sour |
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