What is the meaning of sour?

noun

  • 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.

verb

  • Go sour or spoil.
    • usage: "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned-we have to throw it out"
  • Make sour or more sour.

adjective

  • 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.
    • usage: "sour milk"
  • Inaccurate in pitch.
    • usage: "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"
  • Showing a brooding ill humor.
    • usage: "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
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