sour

sour is a 4-letter English word with 23 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 5 · 23 senses

Definitions

1. superlative. Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.
2. superlative. Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned.
3. superlative. Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply.
4. superlative. Afflictive; painful.
5. superlative. Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh.
6. noun. A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
7. transitive verb. To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances.
8. transitive verb. To make cold and unproductive, as soil.
9. transitive verb. To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable.
10. transitive verb. To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly.
11. transitive verb. To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes.
12. intransitive verb. To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity.
13. noun. the property of being acidic

    Synonyms: acidity, sourness

14. noun. the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth

    Synonyms: sourness, tartness

15. noun. a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
16. verb. go sour or spoil

    "The milk has soured"

    "The wine worked"

    Synonyms: ferment, turn, work

17. verb. make sour or more sour

    Synonyms: acetify, acidify, acidulate

18. adjective. smelling of fermentation or staleness

    Synonyms: rancid

19. adjective. showing a brooding ill humor- Bruce Bliven

    "a dark scowl"

    "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"

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

20. adjective. inaccurate in pitch

    "a false (or sour) note"

    "her singing was off key"

    Synonyms: false

21. adjective. having a sharp biting taste
22. adjective. in an unpalatable state

    "sour milk"

    Synonyms: off, turned

23. adjective. one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons

Synonyms

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

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sour:

ours, rous

Common word forms

sours, soured, souren, sourer, sourly, sourest, souring, sourness

Words from these letters

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