sour

Meaning of sour

noun
  1. The sensation of a sour taste.
  2. A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
  3. (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
  4. A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
  5. The acidic solution used in souring fabric.
verb
  1. To make sour.
    Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe.
  2. To become sour.
  3. To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
  4. To become disenchanted.
    We broke up after our relationship soured.
  5. To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
  6. To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
  7. To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.
adjective
  1. Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
    Lemons have a sour taste.
  2. Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
    Don't drink that milk; it's turned sour.
  3. Tasting or smelling rancid.
    His sour breath makes it unpleasing to talk to him.
  4. (of a person's character) Peevish or bad-tempered.
    He gave me a sour look.
  5. (of soil) Excessively acidic and thus infertile.
    a sour marsh
  6. (of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur.
    sour gas smells like rotten eggs
  7. Unfortunate or unfavorable.
  8. Off-pitch, out of tune.

Information about sour

  • The plural form of sour is: sours.
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Hyphenation of sour

sour

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • sour is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

sour synonyms

Meaning rancid:

rancid

Meaning off:

off, turned

Meaning false:

false

Meaning dark:

dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sullen

Meaning sourness:

sourness, tartness, acidity

Meaning turn:

turn, ferment, work

Meaning acidify:

acidify, acidulate, acetify

sour antonyms

Meaning :

sweet

Translation of sour

Anagrams of sour

ours, rous, Ruso, Urso

Words that rhyme with sour

Sour, rasour, besour, disour, Monsour, unsour, oversour, dissour, tressour, howsour

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