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sour

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having a sharp biting taste(adj.all)

Antonym:
sweet

source: wordnet30
Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.(adjective)

source: webster1913

a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar(noun.food)

source: wordnet30
the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth(noun.cognition)

Synonym:
sourness, tartness

source: wordnet30
the property of being acidic(noun.attribute)

Synonym:
acidity, sourness

source: wordnet30
A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.(noun)

source: webster1913

smelling of fermentation or staleness(adj.all)

Synonym:
rancid

source: wordnet30
one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons(adj.all)

source: wordnet30
in an unpalatable state(adj.all)

Example:
Sour milk.

Synonym:
off, turned

source: wordnet30
inaccurate in pitch(adj.all)

Example:
A false (or sour) note.

Synonym:
false, off-key

source: wordnet30
showing a brooding ill humor(adj.all)

Example:
A sour temper.

Synonym:
dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sullen

source: wordnet30

go sour or spoil(verb.change)

Example:
The milk has soured.

Synonym:
ferment, turn, work

source: wordnet30
make sour or more sour(verb.perception)

Synonym:
acetify, acidify, acidulate
Antonym:
dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate, sweeten

source: wordnet30
To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances.(verb)

source: webster1913
To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity.(verb)

source: webster1913

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