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Textual thesaurus for "sour"

(adj) rancid

smelling of fermentation or staleness


(adj) dark, dour, glowering, glum, saturnine, sullen, moody, morose

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


(adj) off-key, false

inaccurate in pitch

a false (or sour) note; her singing was off key


(adj) turned, off

in an unpalatable state

sour milk


(noun) sourness, acidity

the property of being acidic


(noun) tartness, sourness

the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth


(verb) ferment, work, turn

go sour or spoil

The milk has soured; The wine worked; The cream has turned--we have to throw it out


(verb) acetify, acidify, acidulate

make sour or more sour