Synonyms for sour
saʊər, ˈsaʊ ər

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1. sour(noun)

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

   Synonyms:
   tartness, sourness, acidity

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

2. sour, sourness, tartness(noun)

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

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

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

3. sourness, sour, acidity(adj)

   the property of being acidic

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

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

4. sour, rancid(adj)

   smelling of fermentation or staleness

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

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

5. sour(adj)

   having a sharp biting taste

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

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

6. sour(adj)

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

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

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

7. off, sour, turned(adj)

   in an unpalatable state

   "sour milk"

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

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

8. false, off-key, sour(adj)

   inaccurate in pitch

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

   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

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

9. dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen(verb)

   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:
   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

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

10. sour, turn, ferment, work(verb)

    go sour or spoil

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

    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

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

11. sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify(verb)

    make sour or more sour

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

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

English Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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.

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

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. sour

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

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

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. sour(a.)

   Synonyms:
   acid, tart, pricked

2. sour(a.)

   Synonyms:
   cross, crabbed, morose, surly, testy, touchy, cantankerous, crusty, fretful, peevish, petulant, pettish, snappish, waspish, snarling, cynical, froward, uncivil, rude, rough, harsh, ill-tempered, ill-natured

3. sour(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   make acid, turn sour

4. sour(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   imbitter, make cross

5. sour(v. n.)

   Synonyms:
   turn sour, become acid

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. sour(a)

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

2. sour(v)

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "sour":

   vinegar, crema, acid, bitter, sulphurous, corrosive, tyre

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1. Chinese Proverb:

   Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted.

2. Stefan Worrall:

   We're seeing a perfect storm of the kind of negativity that feeds into people's fears and underscores the dangers lurking in a market where sentiment is very sensitive, it's unsurprising the yen's recent weakness has reversed given the sour macro sentiment arising from events like the natural disaster, the failure of the OPEC meeting to follow through on the encouraging promise it had shown, as well as smaller geopolitical risks like the impeachment going on in Brazil.

3. Pindar:

   Very distasteful is excessive fame To the sour palate of the envious mind, Who hears with grief his neighbours good by name, And hates the fortune that he ne?er shall find.

4. Samuel Goldwyn:

   You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   Every sweet has its sour every evil its good.

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