Main entry: sour, sourness, acidity
Definition: the property of being acidic
Main entry: tartness, sour, sourness
Definition: the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
Main entry: sour
Definition: a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
Main entry: ferment, work, sour, turn
Definition: go sour or spoil
Usage: The milk has soured; The wine worked; The cream has turned--we have to throw it out
Main entry: acetify, acidify, acidulate, sour
Definition: make sour or more sour
Definition: smelling of fermentation or staleness
Main entry: dark, dour, glowering, glum, saturnine, sour, sullen, moody, morose
Definition: showing a brooding ill humor
Usage: 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
Main entry: off-key, false, sour
Definition: inaccurate in pitch
Usage: a false (or sour) note; her singing was off key
Main entry: sour
Definition: having a sharp biting taste
Definition: in an unpalatable state
Usage: sour milk
Main entry: sour
Definition: one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons