Unscramble sour

Definition of sour

adjective:

• smelling of fermentation or staleness. Synonyms: rancid.
• having a sharp biting taste. Antonyms: sweet.
• one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons.
• in an unpalatable state; "sour milk". Synonyms: off, turned.
• inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note", "her singing was off key". Synonyms: false, off-key.
• showing a brooding ill humor; ; ; ; ; ; - Bruce Bliven; "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", "a sour temper", "a sullen crowd". Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sullen.

noun:

• a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar.
• the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth. Synonyms: sourness, tartness.
• the property of being acidic. Synonyms: acidity, sourness.

verb:

• go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured", "The wine worked", "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out". Synonyms: ferment, turn, work.
• make sour or more sour. Synonyms: acetify, acidify, acidulate. Antonyms: sweeten.

Related words

acerbity, acidity, acidulousness, tartness, vinegariness, vinegarishness.

Words nearby

dour, four, hour, lour, pour, scour, slur, soar, sou, souk, soul, soup, spur, sur, tour.

Rhymes with

bower, cower, devour, dour, empower, flour, flower, glower, hour, mph, overpower, power, scour, shower, superpower, tower.