sour  /ˈsaʊr/

noun

1. a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar

synset: sour

2. the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth

synset: sour, sourness, tartness

3. the property of being acidic

synset: sourness, sour, acidity

verb

1. go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"

synset: sour, turn, ferment, work

2. make sour or more sour

synset: sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify

antonym: sweeten, dulcify, edulcorate, dulcorate

adj

1. smelling of fermentation or staleness

synset: sour, rancid

2. having a sharp biting taste

synset: sour

antonym: sweet

3. one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons

synset: sour

4. in an unpalatable state; "sour milk"

synset: off, sour, turned

5. inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"

synset: false, off-key, sour

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"

synset: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen

Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

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