sour | |
1. adj. Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste. | |
Lemons have a sour taste. | |
2. adj. Made rancid by fermentation, etc. | |
sour milk | |
3. adj. Tasting or smelling rancid. | |
sour stink | |
4. adj. Peevish or bad-tempered. | |
He gave me a sour look. | |
5. adj. (of soil) Excessively acidic and thus infertile. | |
sour land | |
a sour marsh | |
6. adj. (of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur. | |
7. adj. Unfortunate or unfavorable. | |
8. adj. (music) Off-pitch, out of tune. | |
9. n. The sensation of a sour taste. | |
10. n. A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar. | |
11. n. (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice. | |
12. n. A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect. | |
13. v. To make sour. | |
Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe. | |
14. v. (intransitive) To become sour. | |
15. v. To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted. | |
16. v. (intransitive) To become disenchanted. | |
We broke up after our relationship soured. | |
17. v. To make (soil) cold and unproductive. | |
18. v. To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar. | |