1. (noun) sour
a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
Synonyms: tartness, sourness, acidity
Antonyms: tasteless, fragrant, saccharine, sweet, unsoured, sweetish, good-natured, treacly, harmonious, syrupy, cloying, sweeten, dulcify, edulcorate, dulcorate
2. (noun) sour, sourness, tartness
the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
Synonyms: sourness, acrimony, moroseness, sulkiness, bitterness, acidity, tartness, sour, sullenness, jaundice, acerbity, thorniness
Antonyms: unsoured, sweet, tasteless, sweetish, saccharine, good-natured, cloying, harmonious, treacly, fragrant, syrupy, edulcorate, dulcorate, dulcify, sweeten
3. (adj) sourness, sour, acidity
the property of being acidic
Synonyms: sourness, moroseness, sulkiness, acidulousness, acidity, tartness, sour, sullenness
Antonyms: treacly, sweet, cloying, sweetish, harmonious, good-natured, tasteless, fragrant, saccharine, unsoured, syrupy, dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate, sweeten
4. (adj) sour, rancid
smelling of fermentation or staleness
Synonyms: off-key, sullen, rancid, off, glowering, morose, dour, dark, false, moody, sour, turned, saturnine, glum
Antonyms: harmonious, cloying, fragrant, tasteless, sweet, treacly, sweetish, unsoured, good-natured, syrupy, saccharine, sweeten, edulcorate, dulcorate, dulcify
5. (adj) sour
having a sharp biting taste
Synonyms: off-key, sullen, rancid, off, glowering, morose, dour, dark, false, moody, turned, saturnine, glum
Antonyms: treacly, harmonious, saccharine, fragrant, sweet, syrupy, sweetish, cloying, good-natured, tasteless, unsoured, sweeten, edulcorate, dulcify, dulcorate
6. (adj) sour
one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
Synonyms: off-key, sullen, rancid, off, glowering, morose, dour, dark, false, moody, turned, saturnine, glum
Antonyms: unsoured, treacly, tasteless, cloying, syrupy, sweet, saccharine, fragrant, sweetish, good-natured, harmonious, edulcorate, sweeten, dulcorate, dulcify
7. (adj) off, sour, turned
in an unpalatable state
Synonyms: cancelled, off-key, sullen, rancid, off, glowering, morose, dour, dark, false, moody, sour, turned, saturnine, glum
Antonyms: syrupy, good-natured, unsoured, harmonious, cloying, saccharine, treacly, fragrant, sweetish, sweet, tasteless, dulcify, sweeten, dulcorate, edulcorate
8. (adj) false, off-key, sour
inaccurate in pitch
Synonyms: off-key, fake, saturnine, turned, mistaken, imitation, sour, delusive, fictive, morose, simulated, put on, dark, off, false, moody, assumed, rancid, dour, sullen, faux, fictitious, sham, glowering, pretended, glum, untrue
Antonyms: cloying, tasteless, harmonious, saccharine, good-natured, unsoured, treacly, sweet, fragrant, sweetish, syrupy, dulcorate, edulcorate, dulcify, sweeten
9. (verb) dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen
showing a brooding ill humor
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, sour, sinister, turned, grim, saturnine, tenacious, off-key, dour, false, unyielding, sorry, drab, colored, dingy, dreary, dismal, persistent, lowering, rancid, morose
Antonyms: treacly, saccharine, cloying, tasteless, good-natured, fragrant, syrupy, sweet, sweetish, harmonious, unsoured, sweeten, dulcorate, dulcify, edulcorate
10. (verb) sour, turn, ferment, work
go sour or spoil
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, sour, 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, make
Antonyms: harmonious, tasteless, cloying, good-natured, saccharine, treacly, unsoured, fragrant, sweetish, syrupy, sweet, sweeten, edulcorate, dulcorate, dulcify
11. (verb) sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify
make sour or more sour
Synonyms: acidulate, acidify, turn, sour, ferment, acetify, work
Antonyms: cloying, sweetish, good-natured, syrupy, tasteless, harmonious, saccharine, treacly, fragrant, sweet, unsoured, sweeten, edulcorate, dulcorate, dulcify
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Synonyms and Antonyms of sour 
