sour

Speech parts

1. sour - Noun

2. sour - Adjective

3. sour - Verb

5. sour - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.

Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned.

Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply.

Afflictive; painful.

Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh.

To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances.

To make cold and unproductive, as soil.

To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable.

To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly.

To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes.

To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

rancid sharp harsh tart moody work off turn crabby acid cross bitter acidic unpleasant acidity
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Antonyms

sweet sweeten knoll can good saccharine
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Hypernyms

turn taste cocktail change state gustatory perception gustatory sensation

Hyponyms

acidity acerbity tartness acidulousness vinegariness vinegarishness

Phrases with the word

sour grapes for sour apples the grapes are sour anyway turn sour as sour as vinegar sour as vinegar

Derivatives

soured souring

Anagrams

ours Ruso Rous

Examples

a dark scowl Source: Internet

the proverbially dour New England Puritan Source: Internet

a glum, hopeless shrug Source: Internet

he sat in moody silence Source: Internet

a morose and unsociable manner Source: Internet

a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

soupspoonful soupy souq sour apple sour as vinegar sour ball