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ADJECTIVE sour COMPARATIVE sourer SUPERLATIVE sourest
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sour English

Meaning sour meaning

What does sour mean?
Definitions in simple English

sour Adjective

— Tasting like an acid. The old milk is bad: it tastes sour.

sour

— verb (= turn, work) go sour or spoil The milk has soured The wine worked The cream has turned--we have to throw it out — adjective smelling of fermentation or staleness — verb make sour or more sour — adjective one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons — adjective having a sharp biting taste — noun the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth — noun a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar — adjective in an unpalatable state sour milk — noun (= sourness) the property of being acidic — adjective (= false, off-key) inaccurate in pitch a false (or sour) note her singing was off key — adjective (= dark, dour, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, 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 — Bruce Bliven a sour temper a sullen crowd

Synonyms sour synonyms

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sour English » English

acid bitter tart spoiled acidic sullen salty morose acrid rancid unpleasant surly sourness ferment vinegary unkind sharp rough harsh fermented astringent tasteless sore moody make sour gruff disagreeable brutal brackish bad tasting acidify acetous vinegarish tartness sulky saturnine rotten insipid glum glowering false dour dark become sour acidulous acidity work very sour turned turn sour

Topics sour topics

What do people use sour to talk about?
States Quality Good

Decay
Person Sense, perceive

Taste
Social behavior Behavior Do good to Meddle

Spoil
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Sad

Jealous
Social behavior Relationships Disunity

Unfriendly

Conjugation sour conjugation

How do you conjugate sour?

sour · verb

Examples sour examples

How do I use sour in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Milk goes sour in heat.
Milk easily turns sour.
The milk turned sour.
The milk has turned sour.
The lemon is a sour fruit.
Lemon is sour.
Don't make such a sour face.
Is it sweet or sour?
The milk tastes sour.
The milk tasted sour.
The grapes seem to be sour.
Those grapes look sweet, but in fact they're sour.
The orange didn't taste either sweet or sour.
This milk tastes sour.
The milk went sour.

Movie subtitles

Sour candies to absorb the toxicity. Oh, Gatorade?
A lot of sour-faced frumps with last year's clothes on.
I came out with a sour puss, but full of fight.
He does look sour.
Get me that sour-faced real estate agent on the phone.
Last week, at the performance of Carmen, I played a sour note.
Of blinis and sour cream.
Sour grapes.
And then cucumber salad with sour cream?
Beet soup with sour cream.
I stopped at a drive-in for a bottle of beer, the one I had wanted all along only I wanted it worse now, to get rid of the sour taste of her iced tea and everything that went with it.
Too sour?
Come on, sour puss.
I don't like goat milk. It's sour.
The last few days she's turned sour. like milk that's been standing too long.
Our Mary's a little bit sour tonight, but, bless you, the best of us can't be sweet-tempered on an empty belly.
But she's just a sour old maid who hates me.
He's supposed to have given me a sour cheque, then he's supposed to have bought a diamond ring - which I suppose I don't see there - and a nice fur coat.
And borscht with sour cream, and bleenies, shashlik, and more booze than you ever seen in your life.
Well, you needn't look so sour about it.
Sour candies to absorb the toxicity.
Say, if I didn't know you real well I'd say you were going sour.
Her sour face will scare more people than her sweets can attract. Sweets? You are right.
Why you two are so sad? Your food will not digest and your wine will sour.
Your food won't digest and your wine will sour.
I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold on to it long enough.
I stopped at a drive-in for a bottle of beer, the one I had wanted all along. only I wanted it worse now, to get rid of the sour taste of her iced tea. and everything that went with it.
If I drunk that much lemonade, I'd be sour for a week.
Beer turned sour?

News and current affairs

That sour sense of rejection, felt by many confused youths, turns for some into a fierce desire for vengeance.
Predictably, Argentina's gamble turned sour.
If it does not, the current Sino-Russian entente cordiale is almost certain to sour.
England would be left to wave its flag of St. George over Wales and Northern Ireland, a rather sour prospect.
If matters turn out well, they look like statesmen and visionaries; if things go sour, it was their fault for not foreseeing the obvious and inevitable.
The world economy turned sour for emerging markets.
Even after recognition by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862, relations remained sour.
The challenge for Putin is to make sure that his relations with the West do not sour.
It began well, when Spanish voters approved the draft European Union constitution, but it turned sour when French and Dutch voters spurned it soon after.
But Karzai's relationship with his sponsors has begun to sour, in part owing to charges that his government has failed to stop the resurgence of Afghanistan's huge opium trade.
Human trafficking rings tend to avoid Sweden, because business has gone sour.
Everything else that was agreed at the London summit turned sour.
It was only in 2002, after NATO began talks to admit Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia, that relations began to sour.
Exporters of light sweet crude - such as Algeria, Angola, and Nigeria - lost nearly all of their market share in the US, while exporters of sour or heavier crude, including Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, have lost little.
Defying such sour predictions, voters clearly felt that elections matter.
Finally, mutual funds are at risk as well, because their supposedly safe investments may sour and the insurance that backs them now appears shaky.
When Greece imploded, the investments turned sour, and the Cypriot banks that had engaged in this strategy became insolvent.
Once the four-star general was moved to the new position, his relationship with the president began to sour.
Her argument is, of course, a classic example of sour grapes; the entire point of a two-round voting system is to force parties and their supporters to seek a consensus and form partnerships.
But, one by one, most of the DPP's founding fathers all left the party, accusing Chen of corruption and autocratic behavior even within his own party - which Chen dismissed as sour grapes from people who wanted their share of the political spoils.

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