Sour - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈsaʊər|  American pronunciation of the word sour
Brit.  |ˈsaʊə|  British pronunciation of the word sour

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 (syn: sourness)
- the property of being acidic (syn: acidity, sourness)

verb

- go sour or spoil (syn: ferment, turn, work)
The milk has soured
- make sour or more sour (syn: acetify, acidify, acidulate)

adjective

- smelling of fermentation or staleness (syn: rancid)
- one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
- in an unpalatable state (syn: off, turned)
sour milk
- inaccurate in pitch (syn: false, off-key)
a false (or sour) note
- showing a brooding ill humor (syn: dark, dour, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sullen)
a sour temper

Extra examples

The milk had turned sour.

He made a sour face.

Her disposition has soured in recent years.

Jealousy has soured their relationship.

His experiences have soured him.

The team's victory was soured by an injury to one of their best players.

Rachel sampled the wine. It was sour.

Eliza was tall and thin, with a rather sour face.

As time went by, their marriage turned sour.

The meeting ended on a sour note with neither side able to reach agreement.

An unhappy childhood has soured her view of life.

What a sour face she has!

The milk has soured

...sent his girlfriend flowers as a propitiatory gesture for a date gone sour...

The wine was sour, the sheets wet, and the servants unapprehensive and impertinent.

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: sour
he/she/it: sours
present participle: souring
past tense: soured
past participle: soured
adjective
comparative: sourer
superlative: sourest
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