sour

Definition of sour in English English dictionary: To become disenchanted
We broke up after our relationship soured.; made rancid by fermentation etc; To make or become sour
Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe.; containing excess sulphur; a drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar; having an acid, sharp or tangy taste; excessively acid and thus infertile; tasting or smelling rancid; peevish or bad-tempered; the sensation of a sour taste; {a} acid, tart, crabbed, peevish, painful; {v} to make or grow sour or discontented; Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply; Refers to a wine with sharp acidity; Something that is sour has a sharp, unpleasant taste like the taste of a lemon. The stewed apple was sour even with honey. see also sweet and sour; To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes; Similar to TART in sensation, but usually imparts more of a green or underripe fruit quality, than by acids; in an unpalatable state; "sour milk"; Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart; to make or become sour or disenchanted; A disagreeable taste, acid, vinegary, indicating a spoiled, undrinkable wine Not to be confused with tartness, astringency or dryness; {f} cause to turn sour; make bitter, disillusion; become sour; become disillusioned and resentful; Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned; To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable; Gas found in its natural state, containing such amounts of compounds of sulphur as to make it impractical to use, without purifying, because of its corrosive effect on piping and equipment; Afflictive; painful; If a friendship, situation, or attitude sours or if something sours it, it becomes less friendly, enjoyable, or hopeful. If anything sours the relationship, it is likely to be real differences in their world-views Her mood soured a little; Someone who is sour is bad-tempered and unfriendly. She made a sour face in his direction + sourly sour·ly `Leave my mother out of it,' he said sourly; The taste sensation of acid Not to be confused with bitter, which is the taste of some tannins; Almost a synonym for ACIDIC Implies presence of acetic acid plus excess acid component (Is also one of the four basic taste sensations detected by the human tongue); A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect; one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons; {s} having a sour taste; bitter, disillusioned, resentful; make sour or more sour; Sour milk is milk that has an unpleasant taste because it is no longer fresh. fresh; To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances; {i} one of the four primary tastes (along with bitter, salty and sweet); something with a sour flavor; alcoholic beverage made with lemon or lime juice mixed with sugar and whiskey or gin; inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"; 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; Foul smelling Describing a petroleum fraction having a bad odor usually caused by mercaptans; spirit, lemon juice, sugar, angostura bitters and egg white, shaken; To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly; To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity; 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; To make cold and unproductive, as soil; Sharply acidic or vinegary; smelling of fermentation or staleness; showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the (Atasözü)ially 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"; Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh; go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"; having a sharp biting taste; disapproval If you refer to someone's attitude as sour grapes, you mean that they say that something is worthless or undesirable because they want it themselves but cannot have it. Page's response to the suggestion that this might be sour grapes because his company lost the bid is: `Life's too short for that.'; Wine which has turned into vinegar or which is in the process of doing so due to an excessive acidity; the property of being acidic; the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"; If a situation or relationship turns sour or goes sour, it stops being enjoyable or satisfactory. Even the European dream is beginning to turn sour Their songs are filled with tales of love gone sour; A basic taste characterized by solutions of tartaric acid, citric acid, or malic acid The unpleasant acidity of a sour coffee cannot be confused with the natural acidity of some coffees in which this quality is prized Perceived at the tip of the tongue; aigre
sour cherries: plural form of sour cherry
sour cherry: a species of Prunus in the subgenus Cerasus (cherries), native to much of Europe and southwest Asia, Prunus cerasus
sour cherry: the fruit of this tree
sour cream: Cream which has been treated with a benign bacterium to turn it slightly sour
sour grapes: A putting down or expression of disdain about something that one desires but cannot have
I think his comments about that new car are just sour grapes because he can't afford it.
sour bread: made with a starter of a small amount of dough in which fermentation is active
sour cherry: Australian tree with sour red fruit
sour cherry: acid cherries used for pies and preserves Australian tree with sour red fruit rather small Eurasian tree producing red to black acid edible fruit
sour cherry: acid cherries used for pies and preserves
sour cherry: rather small Eurasian tree producing red to black acid edible fruit
sour cream: artificially soured light cream
sour cream: A thick, rich dairy product made of fermented cream
sour cream: Also known as "dairy sour cream " This commercial product is made from homogenized pasteurized sweet cream to which a dairy culture has been added for souring
sour cream: Cultured cream that gets its tanginess from lactic acid Note that there is a big difference between sour cream and spoiled cream
sour cream: another ingredient not found in Italy, but for cheesecake toppings we substitute a mixture of Fiorello (latticino cremoso) and sometimes a mild flavored (but delicious) yogurt or at other times mascarpone [see cheesecake di bob, versione italiana and limoncello cheesecake]
sour cream: Sour cream is cream that has been artificially made sour by being mixed with bacteria. It is used in cooking. cream which has been made thicker by adding a type of bacteria
sour cream: sharp and thick cream
sour dock: European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens
sour gourd: acid-tasting Australian gourd-like fruit with a woody rind and large seeds
sour gourd: cream-of-tartar tree: Australian tree having an agreeably acid fruit that resembles a gourd
sour gourd: acid-tasting Australian gourd-like fruit with a woody rind and large seeds African gourd-like fruit with edible pulp
sour gourd: African gourd-like fruit with edible pulp
sour grapes: disparagement of something that is unattainable
sour grapes: Denial of the desirability of something after one has found out that it cannot be reached or acquired: The losers' scorn for the award is pure sour grapes
sour grapes: grapes that are not yet ripe; pretense of disinterest or contempt toward an item that cannot be obtained (from Aesop's fable "The Fox and the Grapes")
sour gum: A deciduous tree (Nyssa sylvatica) of the eastern United States and Mexico, having glossy, somewhat leathery leaves and soft wood. Also called black gum, pepperidge
sour gum: columnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant color in early fall
sour kraut: soured cabbage, pickled cabbage
sour looks: angry glances, furious looks
sour mash: any whiskey distilled from sour mash a mash with optimum acidity for yeast fermentation; a mixture of old and new mash; used in distilling some whiskeys
sour milk: spoiled milk, rotten milk, milk that is old and no longer fit for drinking
sour orange: any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock
sour orange: highly acidic orange used especially in marmalade
sour relations: spoil a relationship, ruin a relationship
sour salt: crystals of citric acid used as seasoning
sour salt: Crystals of citric acid used in cooking
sour soup: soup that has a sour flavor
amaretto sour: a drink made from amaretto and a sweetened mixture of lemon or lime juice
hot and sour soup: any one of several soups, served in various Asian cuisines, which are both spicy and sour
pisco sour: a South American cocktail containing pisco, lemon or lime juice, egg whites, simple syrup, and bitters
soured: Simple past tense and past participle of sour
sourish: Sort of sour, somewhat sour
sourness: The quality or condition of being sour, usually said of human personalities
sweet-and-sour sauce: A sticky sauce used in Chinese cuisine that tastes both sugary and tart
sweet-and-sour sauces: plural form of sweet-and-sour sauce
whiskey sour: A cocktail containing Bourbon whiskey, lemon juice and sugar
sourish: {a} rather sour, rather harsh or cross
sourly: {a} with sourness, harshly, crossly
sourness: {n} acidity, crabbedness, austerity
soured: That has become, or has been made sour
soured: having turned bad
soured: past of sour
sourer: comparative of sour
sourest: superlative of sour
souring: the process of becoming sour
souring: Any sour apple
sourish: Somewhat sour; moderately acid; as, sourish fruit; a sourish taste
sourish: {s} somewhat sour, slightly acid
sourly: In a sour manner
sourly: In a sour manner; with sourness
sourly: in a sour manner, ill-temperedly, crossly, sullenly, nastily
sourly: in a sour manner; "he complained sourly that the new rules only benefitted the managers"
sourly: in a sour manner; "he complained sourly that the new rules only benefitted the managers
sourness: a sullen moody resentful disposition
sourness: {i} acidity, sour flavor; bitterness, disillusionment, resentment
sourness: the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
sourness: the property of being acidic
sourness: The quality or state of being sour
sours: Source
sweet and sour: {s} having the characteristic of a flavor that is a mixture of sweet and sour (used especially in Oriental cooking)
sweet and sour: Sweet and sour is used to describe Chinese food that contains both a sweet flavour and something sharp or sour such as lemon or vinegar
sweet-and-sour: a sweet-and-sour dish in Chinese cooking has both sweet and sour tastes together
sweet-and-sour: {i} special flavor that is mixture of sweet and sour (used especially in Oriental cooking)
sweet-and-sour sauce: liquid condiment for certain kinds of Oriental food (made of sugar, soy and vinegar)
take the sweet and the sour: take the good and the bad together
take the sweet with the sour: take the good with the bad, accept the positive and the negative
turn sour: make sour, become sour
whiskey sour: A cocktail made with whiskey, lemon juice, and sugar
whiskey sour: a sour made with whiskey

sour

Hyphenation

Sour

Turkish pronunciation

saur

Synonyms

acerb, acetic, acetose, acetous, acid, acidic, acidulated, acrid, astringent, bad, biting, bitter, briny, caustic, curdled

Antonyms

good, pleasant, sweet, tasty, cheerful, cordial, friendly, happy, encourage, excite, incite

Pronunciation

/ˈsour/ /ˈsaʊr/

Etymology

[ 'sau(-&)r ] (adjective.) before 12th century. From Old English sūr, from Proto-Germanic *suraz, whence also Old High German sūr, Old Norse súrr and Icelandic súr.