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n. (food) | 1. sour | a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar. |
| ~ cocktail | a short mixed drink. |
| ~ whiskey sour, whisky sour | a sour made with whiskey. |
n. (cognition) | 2. sour, sourness, tartness | the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth. |
| ~ gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, taste, taste perception, taste sensation | the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus.; "the candy left him with a bad taste"; "the melon had a delicious taste" |
| ~ acidulousness, acidity | the taste experience when something acidic is taken into the mouth. |
n. (attribute) | 3. acidity, sour, sourness | the property of being acidic. |
| ~ taste property | a property appreciated via the sense of taste. |
| ~ acerbity, tartness | a sharp sour taste. |
| ~ vinegariness, vinegarishness | a sourness resembling that of vinegar. |
v. (change) | 4. ferment, sour, turn, work | go sour or spoil.; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out" |
| ~ change state, turn | undergo a transformation or a change of position or action.; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election" |
| ~ ferment, work | cause to undergo fermentation.; "We ferment the grapes for a very long time to achieve high alcohol content"; "The vintner worked the wine in big oak vats" |
v. (perception) | 5. acetify, acidify, acidulate, sour | make sour or more sour. |
| ~ change taste | alter the flavor of. |
adj. | 6. rancid, sour | smelling of fermentation or staleness. |
| ~ ill-smelling, malodorous, malodourous, stinky, unpleasant-smelling | having an unpleasant smell. |
adj. | 7. sour | having a sharp biting taste. |
| ~ dry | (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation.; "a dry white burgundy"; "a dry Bordeaux" |
| ~ acerb, acerbic, astringent | sour or bitter in taste. |
| ~ acetose, acetous, vinegarish, vinegary | tasting or smelling like vinegar. |
| ~ acidulent, acidulous, acid, acidic | being sour to the taste. |
| ~ lemonlike, lemony, sourish, tangy, tart | tasting sour like a lemon. |
| ~ subacid | slightly sour to the taste. |
| ~ soured | having turned bad. |
| ~ tasty | pleasing to the sense of taste.; "a tasty morsel" |
adj. | 8. sour | one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons. |
| ~ tasty | pleasing to the sense of taste.; "a tasty morsel" |
adj. | 9. off, sour, turned | in an unpalatable state.; "sour milk" |
| ~ soured | having turned bad. |
adj. | 10. false, off-key, sour | inaccurate in pitch.; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key" |
| ~ inharmonious, unharmonious | not in harmony. |
adj. | 11. dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen | 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"; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" |
| ~ ill-natured | having an irritable and unpleasant disposition. |
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