sour
1. a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
• Hypernyms:
cocktail
• Hyponyms:
whiskey sour, whisky sour
2. the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
• Syn:
sourness, tartness
• Derivationally related forms:
sour (for: tartness), sour (for: sourness)
• Hypernyms:
taste, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception
• Hyponyms:
acidity, acidulousness
3. the property of being acidic
• Syn:
sourness, acidity
• Derivationally related forms:
acid (for: acidity), sour (for: sourness)
• Hypernyms:
taste property
• Hyponyms:
acerbity, tartness, vinegariness, vinegarishness
1. go sour or spoil (Freq. 2)
- The milk has soured
- The wine worked
- The cream has turned--we have to throw it out
• Syn:
turn, ferment, work
• Derivationally related forms:
fermentation (for: ferment), ferment (for: ferment), souring
• Hypernyms:
change state, turn
• Verb Group:
ferment, work
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
2. make sour or more sour (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
acidify, acidulate, acetify
• Ant:
sweeten
• Derivationally related forms:
acetum (for: acetify), acid (for: acidulate), acid (for: acidify)
• Hypernyms:
change taste
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
1. smelling of fermentation or staleness (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
rancid
• Similar to:
malodorous, malodourous, unpleasant-smelling, ill-smelling, stinky
• Derivationally related forms:
rancidness (for: rancid), rancidity (for: rancid), sourness
2. having a sharp biting taste
• Ant:
sweet
• Similar to:
acerb, acerbic, astringent, acetose, acetous,
vinegary, vinegarish, acidic, acid, acidulent, acidulous,
lemony, lemonlike, sourish, tangy, tart, subacid
• See Also:
dry, soured, tasty
• Derivationally related forms:
sourness
3. one of the four basic taste sensations;
like the taste of vinegar or lemons
• Similar to:
tasty
• Derivationally related forms:
sourness
4. in an unpalatable state
- sour milk
• Syn:
off, turned
• Similar to:
soured
• Derivationally related forms:
sourness
5. inaccurate in pitch
- a false (or sour) note
- her singing was off key
• Syn:
false, off-key
• Similar to:
inharmonious, unharmonious
6. 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
• Syn:
dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody,
morose, saturnine, sullen
• Similar to:
ill-natured
• Derivationally related forms:
sullenness (for: sullen), sourness, moroseness (for: morose), moodiness (for: moody), glumness (for: glum)
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