sour

Meanings

• 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
• the property of being acidic
• go sour or spoil
  • "The milk has soured"
• make sour or more sour
• smelling of fermentation or staleness
• having a sharp biting taste
• one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
• in an unpalatable state
  • "sour milk"
• inaccurate in pitch
  • "a false (or sour) note"
• showing a brooding ill humor; ; ; ; ; ; - Bruce Bliven
  • "a sour temper"

Synonyms

acetify, acidify, acidity, acidulate, dark, dour, false, ferment, glowering, glum, moody, morose, off, off-key, rancid, saturnine, sourness, sullen, tartness, turn, turned, work