Dictionary Entry
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
- 1superlative
Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.
- 2superlative
Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned.
- 3superlative
Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply.
- 4superlative
Afflictive; painful.
- 5superlative
Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh.
- 6noun
A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
- 7transitive verb
To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances.
- 8transitive verb
To make cold and unproductive, as soil.
- 9transitive verb
To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable.
- 10transitive verb
To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly.
- 11transitive verb
To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes.
- 12intransitive verb
To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity.
- 13noun
the property of being acidic
- 14noun
the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
- 15noun
a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
- 16verb
go sour or spoil
"The milk has soured"
"The wine worked"
- 17verb
make sour or more sour
- 18adjective
smelling of fermentation or staleness
Synonyms
- 19adjective
showing a brooding ill humor- Bruce Bliven
"a dark scowl"
"the proverbially dour New England Puritan"
- 20adjective
inaccurate in pitch
"a false (or sour) note"
"her singing was off key"
Synonyms
- 21adjective
having a sharp biting taste
- 22adjective
in an unpalatable state
"sour milk"
- 23adjective
one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
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