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Sour

adjective

(compar. sourer; superl. sourest)

1.

Smelling of fermentation or staleness. Synonym: rancid.

2.

Having a sharp biting taste. Antonym: sweet.

3.

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

4.

In an unpalatable state. Synonyms: off, turned.

5.

Inaccurate in pitch. Synonyms: false, off-key. "Her singing was off key"

6.

Showing a brooding ill humor. Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sullen. "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" , "A sour temper" , "A sullen crowd"

verb

(past & past part. soured; pres. part. souring)

1.

Go sour or spoil. Synonyms: ferment, turn, work. "The wine worked" , "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"

2.

Make sour or more sour. Synonyms: acetify, acidify, acidulate. Antonym: sweeten.

noun

1.

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

2.

The taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth. Synonyms: sourness, tartness.

3.

The property of being acidic. Synonyms: acidity, sourness.

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"Sour" Quotes from Famous Books

... glass of water with a glass of skimmed milk, and they see that something is dissolved in the water of the milk, giving it the white colour. Show them a glass of sour milk, where the white substance is separate from the water. Get the names curd and whey. Tell them how the cheesemaker separates sweet milk into curd and whey. If advisable, let them do it, but in any case show them some sweet milk ...

— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management • Ministry of Education

... according to his powers to become a metaphysician. There is no discipline which so well consists with solitude, none which so instantly enfranchises the mind from the tyranny of mean self-interest or vain and envious polemics. Men do not grow sour and quarrelsome about the Absolute: everything that is polemical is inspired, as Michelet once said, by some temporal and momentary interest. The man who has climbed to the Idalian spring comes down ...

— Apologia Diffidentis • W. Compton Leith

... a gamester," said Mr Monckton, "depends solely upon his luck; his disposition varies with every throw of the dice, and he is airy, gay and good humoured, or sour, morose and savage, neither from nature nor from principle, but wholly by ...

— Cecilia vol. 2 - Memoirs of an Heiress • Frances (Fanny) Burney (Madame d'Arblay)

... The airy manner of this redoubtable buccaneer was hardly what he had looked for in a desperate fellow, compelled to ignominious surrender. A thin, sour smile broke ...

— Captain Blood • Rafael Sabatini

... exclaimed; "ay, possibly! but would the scorn of any other man so have crushed self-esteem? The injuries of the wicked do not sour us against the good; but the scoff of the good leaves us malignant against virtue itself. Any other man! Tut! Genius is bound to be indulgent. It should know human errors so well—has, with its large luminous forces, ...

— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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