sour

1. 1

   Tasting of acidity.

   • Lemons have a sour taste.
2. 2

   Made rancid by fermentation, etc.

   • Don't drink that milk; it's turned sour.
3. 3

   Tasting or smelling rancid.

   • His sour breath makes it unpleasing to talk to him.
4. 4

   Hostile or unfriendly.

   • He gave me a sour look.
5. 5

   Excessively acidic and thus infertile. (of soil)

   • sour land
   • a sour marsh
6. 6

   Containing excess sulfur. (of petroleum)

   • sour gas smells like rotten eggs
7. 7

   Unfortunate or unfavorable.

   • Let me embrace thee, sour adversity
8. 8

   Off-pitch, out of tune.

   • Unlike what the name implies, there is nothing inherently wrong with a sour note: It is perfectly well-tuned note that would sound normal in another context (and which presumably would not sound sour to someone unfamiliar with tonal music).

syn. acetose · acetous · acid · acidulent · sour · tart

ant. sweet

1. 1

   The sensation of a sour taste.countableuncountable

2. 2

   A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.countableuncountable

3. 3

   Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.broadlycountableuncountable

4. 4

   A sweet/candy having a sharply sour taste.countableuncountable

   • “You know I like them candies, especially the lemon sours.”
5. 5

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

   • For many Years of Sorrow can dispense; A Dram of Sweet is worth a Pound of Sour
6. 6

   The acidic solution used in souring fabric.countableuncountable

1. 1

   To make sour.transitive

   • Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe.
2. 2

   To become sour.intransitive

   • So the sun's heat, with different powers, / Ripens the grape, the liquor sours.
3. 3

   To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.transitive

   • To sour your happiness I must report, / The queen is dead.
   • He was prudent and industrious, and so good a husbandman, that he might have led a very easy and comfortable life, had not an arrant vixen of a wife soured his domestic quiet.
4. 4

   To become disenchanted.intransitive

   • We broke up after our relationship soured.
5. 5

   To make (soil) cold and unproductive.transitive

   • stagnant water , which tends to sour the soil
6. 6

   To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.

7. 7

   To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.transitive