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Adjective sour has 6 senses
- sour, rancid - smelling of fermentation or staleness
Antonym: fragrant (indirect, via malodorous)
- sour - having a sharp biting taste
Antonyms: sweet, cloying, saccharine, syrupy, treacly, sweetish
- sour - one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
Antonym: tasteless (indirect, via tasteful)
- off, sour, turned - in an unpalatable state; "sour milk"
Antonym: unsoured (indirect, via soured)
- false, off-key, sour - inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"
Antonym: harmonious (indirect, via inharmonious)
- dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen - 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"
Antonym: good-natured (indirect, via ill-natured)
Noun sour has 3 senses
- sour - a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
--1 is a kind of cocktail
--1 has particulars: whiskey sour, whisky sour
- sour, sourness, tartness - the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
--2 is a kind of taste, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception
--2 has particulars: acidity, acidulousness
- sourness, sour, acidity - the property of being acidic
--3 is a kind of taste property
--3 has particulars: acerbity, tartness; vinegariness, vinegarishness
Verb sour has 2 senses
- sour, turn, ferment, work - go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"
--1 is one way to change state, turn
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify - make sour or more sour
--2 is one way to change taste
Antonyms: sweeten, dulcify, edulcorate, dulcorate
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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