Synonyms of the word

sour

• adj. Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
• adj. Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
• adj. Tasting or smelling rancid.
• adj. Peevish or bad-tempered.
• adj. (of soil) Excessively acidic and thus infertile.
• adj. (of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur.
• adj. Unfortunate or unfavorable.
• adj. (music) Off-pitch, out of tune.
• n. The sensation of a sour taste.
• n. A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
• n. (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
• n. A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
• v. (transitive) To make sour.
• v. (intransitive) To become sour.
• v. (transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
• v. (intransitive) To become disenchanted.
• v. (transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
• v. To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.

acerb

• adj. Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit.
• adj. Sharp and harsh in expressing oneself.

acerbic

• adj. Tasting sour or bitter.
• adj. Sharp, harsh, biting.

acetify

• v. (transitive) To convert into acid or vinegar.
• v. (intransitive) To turn acid.

acetose

• adj. Sour like vinegar; acetous.

acetous

• adj. Having a sour taste; sour; acid.
• adj. Causing, or connected with, acetification.

acid

• adj. Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
• adj. (figuratively) Sour-tempered.
• adj. Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
• adj. (music) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as…
• n. A sour substance.
• n. (chemistry) Any of several classes of compound having the following properties:-.
• n. (slang) lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).

acidic

• adj. (chemistry) Having a pH less than 7, or being sour, or having the strength to neutralize alkalis, or turning…
• adj. (mineralogy) Containing a high percentage of silica; opposed to basic.
• adj. Of or relating to acid; having the character of an acid.

acidify

• v. to make something (more) acidic or sour; to convert into an acid.
• v. to neutralize alkalis, as to acidify sugar.
• v. to sour, to embitter.

acidity

• n. The quality or state of being acid.
• n. The quality of sour; sourness; tartness; sharpness to the taste, as in the acidity of lemon juice.
• n. (pathology) Excessive acid quality, as in gastric secretions.

acidulate

• v. (transitive) To make something slightly, or moderately acid; to acidify.
• v. (transitive) To make sour in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat.
• v. (transitive) To use an acidic catalyst. The chemical change being emphasised over the importance of the…

acidulent

• adj. Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous.

acidulous

• adj. Slightly sour; sub-acid; sourish.

astringent

• n. A substance which draws tissue together, thus restricting the flow of blood.
• adj. Sharp, caustic, severe.
• adj. (medicine) Having the effect of drawing tissue together; styptic.

cocktail

• n. A mixed alcoholic beverage.
• n. A mixture of other substances.
• n. A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in its veins.
• n. (Britain, slang, dated) A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward.
• n. A species of rove beetle, so called from its habit of elevating the tail.
• adj. (obsolete) Ostentatiously lacking in manners.
• v. (transitive) To adulterate (fuel, etc.) by mixing in other substances.
• v. (transitive) To treat (a person) to cocktails.

dark

• adj. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
• adj. (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
• adj. Hidden, secret, obscure.
• adj. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
• adj. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
• adj. Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.
• adj. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction…
• n. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
• n. (uncountable) Ignorance.
• n. (uncountable) Nightfall.
• n. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.

dour

• adj. Stern, harsh and forbidding.
• adj. Unyielding and obstinate.
• adj. Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy.

dry

• adj. Free from or lacking moisture.
• adj. Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (Petrochemistry) oil, or (farming) milk.
• adj. (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
• adj. (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquid…
• adj. Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
• adj. (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
• adj. Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly.
• adj. (sciences, somewhat pejorative) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
• n. (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
• n. (especially Australia, with "the") The dry season.
• n. (Australia) An area of waterless country.
• v. (intransitive) To lose moisture.
• v. (transitive) To remove moisture from.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be thirsty.

false

• adj. Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
• adj. Based on factually incorrect premises.
• adj. Spurious, artificial.
• adj. (logic) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
• adj. Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
• adj. Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
• adj. Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
• adj. Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
• adj. (music) Out of tune.
• adv. Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
• n. One of two options on a true-or-false test.

ferment

• v. To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars;…
• v. To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.
• n. Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
• n. A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
• n. A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
• n. A catalyst.

glowering

• v. present participle of glower.
• n. The act of giving a glower.

glum

• v. (obsolete) To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
• n. (obsolete) sullenness.
• adj. despondent; moody; sullen.

ill-natured

• adj. Having a bad nature, whether.

inharmonious

• adj. (music) Not in harmony; discordant.
• adj. Lacking accord or agreement.

lemonlike

• adj. Resembling a lemon.

lemony

• adj. Resembling or characteristic of lemons, especially in terms of taste.
• adj. Of or pertaining to lemons.

malodorous

• adj. Having a bad odor.
• adj. (figuratively) Highly improper.

malodourous

• adj. Alternative form of malodorous.

moody

• adj. Given to sudden or frequent changes of mind; temperamental.
• adj. sulky or depressed.
• adj. dour, gloomy or brooding.
• adj. (slang) dodgy or stolen.

morose

• adj. Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.

off

• adv. In a direction away from the speaker or object.
• adv. Into a state of non-operation; into a state of non-existence.
• adv. So as to be removed or separated.
• adj. Inoperative, disabled.
• adj. Rancid, rotten.
• adj. (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed…
• adj. Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
• adj. Circumstanced (as in well off, better off, poorly off).
• adj. Started on the way.
• adj. Far; off to the side.
• adj. Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post,…
• adj. (of a dish on a menu) Presently unavailable.
• adj. right-hand (in relation to the side of a horse or a vehicle).
• prep. Used to indicate movement away from a position on.
• prep. (colloquial) Out of the possession of.
• prep. Away from or not on.
• prep. Disconnected or subtracted from.
• prep. Distant from.
• prep. No longer wanting or taking.
• prep. Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
• v. (transitive, Singapore) To switch off.
• n. (rare) beginning; starting point.

off-key

• adj. (music) pitched inaccurately either above or below the correct note.
• adj. (by extension) not harmonious, or out of accord.

rancid

• adj. Being rank in taste or smell.
• adj. Offensive.

saturnine

• adj. Of or born under Saturn's influence.
• adj. Containing lead, or suffering from lead poisoning (saturnia).
• adj. Having a tendency to be gloomy, bitter, and sarcastic; sullenly sardonic.
• adj. Gloomy, depressed, dull.
• adj. Cold and slow to change and react (refers to mood).

soured

• adj. That has become, or has been made sour.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of sour.

sourish

• adj. Somewhat sour.

sourness

• n. The quality or condition of being sour, usually said of human personalities.

stinky

• adj. Having a strong, unpleasant smell; stinking.
• adj. (informal) Bad, undesirable.

subacid

• adj. Somewhat acidic.
• n. Any substance that is moderately acid.

sullen

• adj. Having a brooding ill temper; sulky.
• adj. Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.
• adj. Sluggish; slow.
• adj. (obsolete) Lonely; solitary; desolate.
• adj. (obsolete) Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
• adj. (obsolete) Obstinate; intractable.
• n. (obsolete) One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.
• n. Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness.

tangy

• adj. having a sharp, pungent flavor.

tart

• adj. Sharp to the taste; acid; sour.
• adj. (of wine) high or too high in acidity.
• adj. (figuratively) Sharp; keen; severe.
• n. A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.
• n. (Britain, slang) A prostitute.
• n. (Britain, slang, derogatory) By extension, any woman with loose sexual morals.
• v. To practice prostitution.
• v. To practice promiscuous sex.
• v. To dress garishly, ostentatiously, whorishly, or sluttily.

tartness

• n. The characteristic of being tart; sharpness of taste; sourness; bitterness.

taste

• n. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals (Wikipedia).
• n. (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary,…
• n. Personal preference; liking; predilection.
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality…
• n. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
• v. (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
• v. (intransitive) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished.
• v. To experience.
• v. To take sparingly.
• v. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
• v. (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.

tasty

• adj. Having a pleasant or satisfying flavor; delicious.
• adj. (obsolete) Having or showing good taste; tasteful.
• adj. (slang) Appealing; when applied to persons, sexually appealing.
• adj. (Britain, informal) Skillful; highly competent.
• adj. (Britain, informal) Potentially violent.

turn

• v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
• v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
• v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
• v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
• v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
• v. (archaic) To translate.
• n. A change of direction or orientation.
• n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
• n. A single loop of a coil.
• n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
• n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
• n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
• n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
• n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
• n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
• n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
• n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
• n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
• n. A deed done to another.
• n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
• n. Character; personality; nature.
• n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

turned

• v. simple past tense and past participle of turn.

unharmonious

• adj. Alternative form of inharmonious.

vinegarish

• adj. Tasting somewhat like vinegar.
• adj. (figuratively) acerbic, bitter.

vinegary

• adj. sour, like vinegar.
• adj. (figuratively) acerbic, bitter.
• adj. of a liquid, having turned partially or fully to vinegar.

work

• n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
• n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
• n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
• n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
• n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
• v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
• v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
• v. (transitive) To set into action.
• v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
• v. (intransitive) To ferment.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
• v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
• v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
• v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
• v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
• v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to work.
• v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
• v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
• v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
• v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.