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sour



I - noun
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

II - verb
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

III - adjective
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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