Sour
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English
Adjective
Sour (comparative sourer, superlative sourest)
- having an acid, sharp or tangy taste
- made rancid by fermentation etc
- tasting or smelling rancid
- peevish or bad-tempered
- (of soil) excessively acid and thus infertile
- (of petroleum) containing excess sulphur
Noun
Sour (countable and uncountable; plural sours)Verb
Sour (third-person singular simple present sours, present participle souring, simple past and past participle soured)
- To make or become sour
- Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe.
- To become disenchanted
- We broke up after our relationship soured.
Adverbs for Sour
disagreeably; acridly; yeastily; pleasantly; horribly; startlingly; unexpectedly; oddly; mustily; offensively; overly; extremely; curiously; unpalatably; unpleasantly; rancidly.
Thesaurus
abrupt, absonant, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acerbity, acescency, acescent, acetify, acid, acidic, acidify, acidity, acidulant, acidulate, acidulated, acidulent, acidulous, acidulousness, acrid, acrimonious, aftertaste, agent provocateur, aggravate, amaroidal, amplify, annoy, asperous, astringent, atonal, augment, bad, bad-tempered, bilious, biting, bitter, bitter as gall, blown, bread-and-butter pickle, brusque, build up, cacophonous, caustic, chokecherry, choleric, churlish, coarse, crab, crab apple, crabbed, crabby, cracked, cranky, cross, crusty, curdle, curdled, curt, cutting, deepen, deteriorate, diaphonic, dill pickle, disagreeable, disconsonant, discontented, discordant, disenchant, disharmonic, disharmonious, dislikable, displeasing, dissonant, distasteful, dry, dryness, dyspeptic, edgy, embitter, embittered, enhance, enlarge, envenom, escharotic, exacerbate, exasperate, ferment, fermented, flat, flavor, frowy, gamy, gloomy, go bad, go off, gone off, grating, green, green apple, greenness, grouchy, gust, hard, harsh, heat up, heighten, high, hot up, hyperacidity, ill-natured, ill-tempered, immelodious, impatient, increase, inharmonic, inharmonious, intensify, irritate, irritating, jaundiced, keen, lemon, lime, magnify, make acute, make worse, mordant, morose, musicless, nasty, nonmelodious, nose-tickling, off, off-key, off-tone, out of pitch, out of tone, out of tune, palate, peeve, peevish, penetrating, petulant, pickle, pickled, piercing, piquant, poignant, provoke, pungency, pungent, rancid, rank, raucous, reechy, relish, rough, salt, sapidity, sapor, savor, savoriness, sec, severe, sharp, sharpen, shrill, smack, snappish, sour as vinegar, sour balls, sour cream, sour grapes, sour pickle, sour-tempered, sourdough, soured, sourish, sourishness, sourness, spoil, spoiled, spoilt, stale, stinging, stomach, strident, strong, subacidity, sullen, sweet, tainted, tang, tart, tartish, tartishness, tartness, taste, terrible, testy, thankless, tongue, tooth, trenchant, tuneless, turn, turn sour, turned, ugly, unalluring, unappealing, unappetizing, unattractive, undelectable, undelicious, undesirable, unengaging, unenjoyable, unharmonious, uninviting, unlikable, unmelodious, unmusical, unpalatable, unpleasant, unpleasing, unripe, unripeness, unsavory, unsweet, unsweetened, unsweetness, untasteful, untunable, untuned, untuneful, unwelcome, verjuice, vex, vinegar, vinegariness, vinegarish, vinegarishness, vinegary, vitriolic, worsen, yogurt
Etymology
From Old English sūr, from Proto-Germanic *sūraz, whence also Old High German sūr, Old Norse súrr and Icelandic súr.
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