Antonyms for sour
saʊər, ˈsaʊ ərsour

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1. sour

   Acid, sour, and bitter agree in being contrasted with sweet, but the two former are sharply distinguished from the latter. Acid or sour is the taste of vinegar or lemon-juice; bitter that of quassia, quinine, or strychnine. Acrid is nearly allied to bitter. Pungent suggests the effect of pepper or snuff on the organs of taste or smell; as, a pungent odor. Caustic indicates the corroding effect of some strong chemical, as nitrate of silver. In a figurative sense, as applied to language or character, these words are very closely allied. We say a sour face, sharp words, bitter complaints, caustic wit, cutting irony, biting sarcasm, a stinging taunt, harsh judgment, a tart reply. Harsh carries the idea of intentional and severe unkindness, bitter of a severity that arises from real or supposed ill treatment. The bitter speech springs from the sore heart. Tart and sharp utterances may not proceed from an intention to wound, but merely from a wit recklessly keen; cutting, stinging, and biting speech indicates more or less of hostile intent, the latter being the more deeply malicious. The caustic utterance is meant to burn, perhaps wholesomely, as in the satire of Juvenal or Cervantes. Compare MOROSE.

   Antonyms:
   dulcet, honeyed, luscious, nectared, saccharine, sweet

   Synonyms:
   acerb, acetous, acid, acidulated, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, biting, bitter, caustic, cutting, harsh, irate, pungent, savage, sharp, stinging, tart, vinegarish, virulent

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1. sour

   Antonyms:
   sweet, wholesome, untainted, mellow, genial, kindly

   Synonyms:
   tart, rancid, coagulated, turned, harsh, crabbed, austere, morose, pungent, crusty, acid, churlish, bitter, acetous, acrimonious, peevish

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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sournoun

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

   Antonyms:
   tasteless, fragrant, saccharine, sweet, unsoured, sweetish, good-natured, treacly, harmonious, syrupy, cloying, sweeten, dulcify, edulcorate, dulcorate

   Synonyms:
   tartness, sourness, acidity

2. sour, sourness, tartnessnoun

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

   Antonyms:
   unsoured, sweet, tasteless, sweetish, saccharine, good-natured, cloying, harmonious, treacly, fragrant, syrupy, edulcorate, dulcorate, dulcify, sweeten

   Synonyms:
   sourness, acrimony, moroseness, sulkiness, bitterness, acidity, tartness, sullenness, jaundice, acerbity, thorniness

3. sourness, sour, acidityadjective

   the property of being acidic

   Antonyms:
   treacly, sweet, cloying, sweetish, harmonious, good-natured, tasteless, fragrant, saccharine, unsoured, syrupy, dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate, sweeten

   Synonyms:
   sourness, moroseness, sulkiness, acidulousness, acidity, tartness, sullenness

4. sour, rancidadjective

   smelling of fermentation or staleness

   Antonyms:
   harmonious, cloying, fragrant, tasteless, sweet, treacly, sweetish, unsoured, good-natured, syrupy, saccharine, sweeten, edulcorate, dulcorate, dulcify

   Synonyms:
   off-key, sullen, rancid, off, glowering, morose, dour, dark, false, moody, turned, saturnine, glum

5. souradjective

   having a sharp biting taste

   Antonyms:
   treacly, harmonious, saccharine, fragrant, sweet, syrupy, sweetish, cloying, good-natured, tasteless, unsoured, sweeten, edulcorate, dulcify, dulcorate

   Synonyms:
   off-key, sullen, rancid, off, glowering, morose, dour, dark, false, moody, turned, saturnine, glum

6. souradjective

   one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons

   Antonyms:
   unsoured, treacly, tasteless, cloying, syrupy, sweet, saccharine, fragrant, sweetish, good-natured, harmonious, edulcorate, sweeten, dulcorate, dulcify

   Synonyms:
   off-key, sullen, rancid, off, glowering, morose, dour, dark, false, moody, turned, saturnine, glum

7. off, sour, turnedadjective

   in an unpalatable state

   "sour milk"

   Antonyms:
   syrupy, good-natured, unsoured, harmonious, cloying, saccharine, treacly, fragrant, sweetish, sweet, tasteless, dulcify, sweeten, dulcorate, edulcorate

   Synonyms:
   cancelled, off-key, sullen, rancid, off, glowering, morose, dour, dark, false, moody, turned, saturnine, glum

8. false, off-key, souradjective

   inaccurate in pitch

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

   Antonyms:
   cloying, tasteless, harmonious, saccharine, good-natured, unsoured, treacly, sweet, fragrant, sweetish, syrupy, dulcorate, edulcorate, dulcify, sweeten

   Synonyms:
   off-key, fake, saturnine, turned, mistaken, imitation, delusive, fictive, morose, simulated, put on, dark, off, false, moody, assumed, rancid, dour, sullen, faux, fictitious, sham, glowering, pretended, glum, untrue

9. dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullenverb

   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"

   Antonyms:
   treacly, saccharine, cloying, tasteless, good-natured, fragrant, syrupy, sweet, sweetish, harmonious, unsoured, sweeten, dulcorate, dulcify, edulcorate

   Synonyms:
   pertinacious, heavy, forbidding, glum, sullen, dogged, dark, moody, non-white, temperamental, threatening, coloured, disconsolate, dark-skinned, black, gloomy, drear, benighted, off, blue, glowering, obscure, sinister, turned, grim, saturnine, tenacious, off-key, dour, false, unyielding, sorry, drab, dingy, dreary, dismal, persistent, lowering, rancid, morose

10. sour, turn, ferment, workverb

    go sour or spoil

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

    Antonyms:
    harmonious, tasteless, cloying, good-natured, saccharine, treacly, unsoured, fragrant, sweetish, syrupy, sweet, sweeten, edulcorate, dulcorate, dulcify

    Synonyms:
    knead, bend, operate, wrick, process, work, deform, shape, change state, figure out, move around, twist, work out, release, run, wreak, function, rick, call on, acidify, lick, forge, solve, flex, act, wrench, become, form, plow, acetify, mould, exploit, go, grow, sprain, play, do work, make for, mold, bring, change by reversal, puzzle out, put to work, turn over, reverse, crop, exercise, ferment, cultivate, work on, act upon, turn, influence, acidulate, plough, make

11. sour, acidify, acidulate, acetifyverb

    make sour or more sour

    Antonyms:
    cloying, sweetish, good-natured, syrupy, tasteless, harmonious, saccharine, treacly, fragrant, sweet, unsoured, sweeten, edulcorate, dulcorate, dulcify

    Synonyms:
    acidulate, acidify, turn, ferment, acetify, work

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1. souradjective

   Synonyms:
   acid, tart, acetose, acerbitous, acrid, rancid, musty, curdled, loppered, imbittered, morose, misanthropic, unamiable, dour, cynical, surly, grum, austere, crabbed, cross

2. sourverb

   Synonyms:
   curdle, acidify, lopper, spoil, acidulate, imbitter, embitter

How to use sour in a sentence?

1. Hikaru Sato:

   Investor sentiment overall is sour now. The Japanese market this week is going to depend on external factors and overseas economic data again.

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   Every sweet has its sour every evil its good.

3. Carlos Meza:

   You can feel something sour that transcends all kinds of church activities, it's not just during Masses.

4. David Chalian:

   This notion of a sour mood that the country finds itself in – a pretty persistent one since Covid that the country hasn’t really bounced out of – is a challenge for our political leadership, i don’t know that a president alone can really upend this.

5. Connor McDavid:

   I think we’re a group that expects more from ourselves. We’re a group that we want to push and continue to grow, and obviously we didn’t do that in the playoffs. We’re still sour. I don’t think anyone’s going to deny that.

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