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Sour
see synonyms of sourNoun
1. sour
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
Verb
go sour or spoil
Example Sentences:'The milk has soured''The wine worked''The cream has turned--we have to throw it out'
Adjective
7. sour
having a sharp biting taste
8. sour
one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
inaccurate in pitch
Example Sentences:'a false (or sour) note''her singing was off key'
11. dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen
showing a brooding ill humor
Example Sentences:'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''a sour temper''a sullen crowd'
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
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