Lexic.us

Definition of Sour

1. Adjective. Smelling of fermentation or staleness.

2. Verb. Go sour or spoil. "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"

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

4. Adjective. Having a sharp biting taste.

5. Verb. Make sour or more sour.

6. Noun. The taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth.

7. Adjective. One of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons.

8. Noun. The property of being acidic.

9. Adjective. In an unpalatable state. "Sour milk"

10. Adjective. Inaccurate in pitch. "Her singing was off key"

11. Adjective. Showing a brooding ill humor. "A sullen crowd"

Definition of Sour

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

2. n. A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.

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

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

Definition of Sour

1. Adjective. Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste. ¹

2. Adjective. Made rancid by fermentation, etc. ¹

3. Adjective. Tasting or smelling rancid. ¹

4. Adjective. Peevish or bad-tempered. ¹

5. Adjective. (context: of soil) Excessively acidic and thus infertile. ¹

6. Adjective. (context: of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur. ¹

7. Adjective. Unfortunate or unfavorable. ¹

8. Noun. The sensation of a sour taste. ¹

9. Noun. A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar. ¹

10. Noun. (context: by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice. ¹

11. Verb. To make or become sour. ¹

12. Verb. To become disenchanted. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sour

1. sharp or biting to the taste [adj SOURER, SOUREST] / to make or become sour [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Sour

1. A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect. 1. To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances. "So the sun's heat, with different powers, Ripens the grape, the liquor sours." (Swift) 2. To make cold and unproductive, as soil. 3. To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable. "To sour your happiness I must report, The queen is dead." (Shak) 4. To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly. "Souring his cheeks." "Pride had not sour'd nor wrath debased my heart." (Harte) 5. To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes. Origin: AS. Srian to sour, to become sour. 1. Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart. "All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite." (Bacon) 2. Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned. 3. Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply. "A sour countenance." "He was a scholar . . . Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer." (Shak) 4. Afflictive; painful. "Sour adversity." 5. Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh. Sour dock, the edible acid fruit of an Australian tree (Owenia venosa); also, the tree itself, which furnished a hard reddish wood used by wheelwrights. Synonym: Acid, sharp, tart, acetous, acetose, harsh, acrimonious, crabbed, currish, peevish. Origin: OE. Sour, sur, AS. Sr; akin to D. Zuur, G. Sauer, OHG. Sr, Icel. Srr, Sw. Sur, Dan. Suur, Lith. Suras salt, Russ. Surovui harsh, rough. Cf. Sorrel, the plant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sour

soupless souplike soupline souplines soupling soupmaker soupmakers soups soupspoon soupspoonful

soupspoonfuls soupspoons soupy souq souqs sour (current term) sour-gum family sour bread sour cherries sour cherry

sour cherry tree sour cream sour dock sour fig sour gourd sour grapes sour gum sour krout sour mash

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