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Synonyms for sour
saʊər, ˈsaʊ ərsour
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
sour
Acid, sour, and bitter agree in being contrasted with sweet, but the two former are sharply distinguished from the latter. Acid or sour is the taste of vinegar or lemon-juice; bitter that of quassia, quinine, or strychnine. Acrid is nearly allied to bitter. Pungent suggests the effect of pepper or snuff on the organs of taste or smell; as, a pungent odor. Caustic indicates the corroding effect of some strong chemical, as nitrate of silver. In a figurative sense, as applied to language or character, these words are very closely allied. We say a sour face, sharp words, bitter complaints, caustic wit, cutting irony, biting sarcasm, a stinging taunt, harsh judgment, a tart reply. Harsh carries the idea of intentional and severe unkindness, bitter of a severity that arises from real or supposed ill treatment. The bitter speech springs from the sore heart. Tart and sharp utterances may not proceed from an intention to wound, but merely from a wit recklessly keen; cutting, stinging, and biting speech indicates more or less of hostile intent, the latter being the more deeply malicious. The caustic utterance is meant to burn, perhaps wholesomely, as in the satire of Juvenal or Cervantes. Compare MOROSE.
Synonyms:
acerb, acetous, acid, acidulated, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, biting, bitter, caustic, cutting, harsh, irate, pungent, savage, sharp, stinging, tart, vinegarish, virulentAntonyms:
dulcet, honeyed, luscious, nectared, saccharine, sweet
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Princeton's WordNet
sournoun
a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
Synonyms:
tartness, sourness, acidityAntonyms:
tasteless, fragrant, saccharine, sweet, unsoured, sweetish, good-natured, treacly, harmonious, syrupy, cloying, sweeten, dulcify, edulcorate, dulcoratesour, sourness, tartnessnoun
the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
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sourness, acrimony, moroseness, sulkiness, bitterness, acidity, tartness, sullenness, jaundice, acerbity, thorninessAntonyms:
unsoured, sweet, tasteless, sweetish, saccharine, good-natured, cloying, harmonious, treacly, fragrant, syrupy, edulcorate, dulcorate, dulcify, sweetensourness, sour, acidityadjective
the property of being acidic
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sourness, moroseness, sulkiness, acidulousness, acidity, tartness, sullennessAntonyms:
treacly, sweet, cloying, sweetish, harmonious, good-natured, tasteless, fragrant, saccharine, unsoured, syrupy, dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate, sweetensour, rancidadjective
smelling of fermentation or staleness
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off-key, sullen, rancid, off, glowering, morose, dour, dark, false, moody, turned, saturnine, glumAntonyms:
harmonious, cloying, fragrant, tasteless, sweet, treacly, sweetish, unsoured, good-natured, syrupy, saccharine, sweeten, edulcorate, dulcorate, dulcifysouradjective
having a sharp biting taste
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off-key, sullen, rancid, off, glowering, morose, dour, dark, false, moody, turned, saturnine, glumAntonyms:
treacly, harmonious, saccharine, fragrant, sweet, syrupy, sweetish, cloying, good-natured, tasteless, unsoured, sweeten, edulcorate, dulcify, dulcoratesouradjective
one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
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off-key, sullen, rancid, off, glowering, morose, dour, dark, false, moody, turned, saturnine, glumAntonyms:
unsoured, treacly, tasteless, cloying, syrupy, sweet, saccharine, fragrant, sweetish, good-natured, harmonious, edulcorate, sweeten, dulcorate, dulcifyoff, sour, turnedadjective
in an unpalatable state
"sour milk"
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cancelled, off-key, sullen, rancid, off, glowering, morose, dour, dark, false, moody, turned, saturnine, glumAntonyms:
syrupy, good-natured, unsoured, harmonious, cloying, saccharine, treacly, fragrant, sweetish, sweet, tasteless, dulcify, sweeten, dulcorate, edulcoratefalse, off-key, souradjective
inaccurate in pitch
"a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"
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off-key, fake, saturnine, turned, mistaken, imitation, delusive, fictive, morose, simulated, put on, dark, off, false, moody, assumed, rancid, dour, sullen, faux, fictitious, sham, glowering, pretended, glum, untrueAntonyms:
cloying, tasteless, harmonious, saccharine, good-natured, unsoured, treacly, sweet, fragrant, sweetish, syrupy, dulcorate, edulcorate, dulcify, sweetendark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullenverb
showing a brooding ill humor
"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"
Synonyms:
pertinacious, heavy, forbidding, glum, sullen, dogged, dark, moody, non-white, temperamental, threatening, coloured, disconsolate, dark-skinned, black, gloomy, drear, benighted, off, blue, glowering, obscure, sinister, turned, grim, saturnine, tenacious, off-key, dour, false, unyielding, sorry, drab, dingy, dreary, dismal, persistent, lowering, rancid, moroseAntonyms:
treacly, saccharine, cloying, tasteless, good-natured, fragrant, syrupy, sweet, sweetish, harmonious, unsoured, sweeten, dulcorate, dulcify, edulcoratesour, turn, ferment, workverb
go sour or spoil
"The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"
Synonyms:
knead, bend, operate, wrick, process, work, deform, shape, change state, figure out, move around, twist, work out, release, run, wreak, function, rick, call on, acidify, lick, forge, solve, flex, act, wrench, become, form, plow, acetify, mould, exploit, go, grow, sprain, play, do work, make for, mold, bring, change by reversal, puzzle out, put to work, turn over, reverse, crop, exercise, ferment, cultivate, work on, act upon, turn, influence, acidulate, plough, makeAntonyms:
harmonious, tasteless, cloying, good-natured, saccharine, treacly, unsoured, fragrant, sweetish, syrupy, sweet, sweeten, edulcorate, dulcorate, dulcifysour, acidify, acidulate, acetifyverb
make sour or more sour
Synonyms:
acidulate, acidify, turn, ferment, acetify, workAntonyms:
cloying, sweetish, good-natured, syrupy, tasteless, harmonious, saccharine, treacly, fragrant, sweet, unsoured, sweeten, edulcorate, dulcorate, dulcify
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
souradjective
souradjective
Synonyms:
cross, crabbed, morose, surly, testy, touchy, cantankerous, crusty, fretful, peevish, petulant, pettish, snappish, waspish, snarling, cynical, froward, uncivil, rude, rough, harsh, ill-tempered, ill-naturedsourverb
sourverb
Synonyms:
imbitter, make crosssourverb
Synonyms:
turn sour, become acid
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How to use sour in a sentence?
It is very unique. Most cloacas form a kind of slit. Sometimes it's a vertical split, sometimes it's a smiley face, sometimes it's a sour face. This thing has a V-shaped structure with a pair of nice flaring lips and there's not a living groups of animals that have morphology like that, it is somewhat similar to crocodiles but still unique.
To replace Iranian oil it makes sense to go for a sour grade such as Mars and Green Canyon. The problem is these grades are also needed in the U.S. and it is the very light sweet grades that are in excess.
It’s difficult to overstate how sour a taste this left in the hundreds of thousands of people at one of the most emotionally charged periods of the year.
Ask not a man who his father was but make trial of his qualities, and then conciliate or reject him accordingly. For it is no disgrace to new wine, if only it be sweet, as to its taste, that it was the juice [or daughter] of sour grapes.
Democratic candidates are even in the polls even with gale force political winds in their face, the quality of Democratic candidates has enabled them to defy the traditional midterm disadvantage of the party in power, economic headwinds and a sour presidential approval rating to beat the odds. Republicans should be dominating — but they aren't — because not only are their candidates that badbut because swing state Democrats are that good.
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- حامضArabic
- turşAzerbaijani
- кіслыBelarusian
- ки́селBulgarian
- àcid, agreCatalan, Valencian
- zahořklý, kyselý, zkyslý, zkysaný, mrzutýCzech
- кꙑсѣлъOld Church Slavonic, Church Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- egr, surWelsh
- surDanish
- versäuern, Säure, sauer, angesäuert, gesäuert, sauer vergären, säuern, Whiskey Sauer, sauer vergoren, ranzigGerman
- ξινός, ξινισμένος, όξινοςGreek
- acidaEsperanto
- agrio, ácidoSpanish
- hapuEstonian
- ترشPersian
- kirpeä, nyreä, hapan, hapantunut, särkyä, rikkoa, mennä pilalle, pilata, hapantaa, särkeä, härski, hapantua, hapannuttaa, härskiintynyt, nyrpeä, pilaantua, tehdä, taantuaFinnish
- aigre, surFrench
- géarIrish
- goirt, gruamachScottish Gaelic
- ácido, acedoGalician
- חמוץHebrew
- खट्टाHindi
- savanyúHungarian
- թթուArmenian
- asam, diasamiIndonesian
- súrIcelandic
- agroItalian
- 酸っぱい, すっぱいJapanese
- მჟავეGeorgian
- 시어진, 비뚤어지다, 시다, 신Korean
- تورشKurdish
- rūgštusLithuanian
- skābs, skābēts, skābtLatvian
- ī, ngākau kawaMāori
- кисел, ски́снат, ки́сел, ки́селостMacedonian
- masamMalay
- ချဉ်Burmese
- zuurDutch
- surNorwegian
- zjełczały, kwaśnyPolish
- azedoPortuguese
- acruRomanian
- ки́слыйRussian
- kȉseo, ки̏сеоSerbo-Croatian
- kyslýSlovak
- kiselSlovene
- thartëAlbanian
- surSwedish
- పులుపుTelugu
- maasimTagalog
- ekşi, bayat, acımış, asık suratlı, asitliTurkish
- ки́слийUkrainian
- ھٹاUrdu
- seurWalloon
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