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SOUR

Definition:

[noun] a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
[noun] the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
Synonyms: ness, tartness
[noun] the property of being acidic
Synonyms: ness, acidity
[verb] go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned
Synonyms: turn, ferment, work
[verb] make sour or more sour
Synonyms: acidify, acidulate, acetify
[adjective] smelling of fermentation or staleness
Synonyms: rancid
[adjective] having a sharp biting taste
[adjective] one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
[adjective] in an unpalatable state; "sour milk"
Synonyms: off, turned
[adjective] inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"
Synonyms: false, off-key
[adjective] 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: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sullen