Word: Sour
How to pronounce: ˈsaʊə
Adjective
Definitions:
1. Having an acid taste like lemon or vinegar.
Example sentences: "She sampled the wine and found it was sour"
2. Feeling or expressing resentment, disappointment, or anger.
Example sentences: "She was quite a different woman from the sour, bored creature I had known"
3. (of soil) deficient in lime and usually dank.
Example sentences: "Our soil is on the sour side and lays wet in spots, as the old-timers say."
4. (of petroleum or natural gas) containing a relatively high sulfur content.
Example sentences: "This risked individuals working on the platform being exposed to the toxic gas, hydrogen sulphide and excessive quantities of sour gas being allowed into the atmosphere."
Noun
Definitions:
1. A drink made by mixing an alcoholic beverage with lemon juice or lime juice.
Example sentences: "A rum sour"
Verb
Definitions:
1. Make or become sour.
Example sentences: "Water soured with tamarind"
Synonyms:
tart
acidulous
acidic
sour cream
cream
acid
glum
saturnine
acidity
tartness
sulfurous
gloomy
dour
harsh
sullen
morose
ferment
bitter
disagreeable
dark
moody
vinegary
wrong
nasty
wicked
bad
unpalatable
unwelcome
Derivations:
soured
sourish
souring
sourness
sourly
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Sour in Other Languages...
Spanish: Agrio
German: Sauer
French: Aigre
Italian: Acido
Turkish: Ekşi
