Sour

//ˈsaʊə//

Synonyms for "sour" (314 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (63)

acerbic acidulent rancid sourness turned vinegary abrupt absonant acerb acerbate acerbity acescency acescent acetify acid acidic acidify acidity acidulant acidulate

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Verb(8 words)

acetify acidify acidulate ball up blight blot botch bungle

Adjective(4 words)

acetose acetous acid acidulent

Noun(1 words)

acidity

Strong matches (94)

Related words (157)

intensify irritate irritating jaundiced keen lemon lemonlike lime magnify make acute make worse mean mordant morose musicless musty nasty nonmelodious nose tickling nose-tickling

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off off key off-key off-tone out of pitch out of tone out of tune palate peeve peevish penetrating peroxide petulant pickle pickled piercing piquant poignant provoke pungency pungent querulous rank raucous reechy relish rotten rough salt sapidity sapor savor savoriness sec severe sharp sharpen shrill smack snappish sour as vinegar sour balls sour cream sour grapes sour pickle sour-tempered sourdough soured sourish sourishness spoil spoiled spoilt stale stern stinging stomach strident strong subacid subacidity sullen sweet tainted tang tart tartish tartishness tartness taste tasty terrible testy thankless tongue tooth trenchant tuneless turn turn sour ugly unalluring unappealing unappetizing unattractive undelectable undelicious undesirable unengaging unenjoyable unhappy unharmonious uninviting unlikable unmelodious unmusical unpalatable unpleasant unpleasing unripe unripeness unsavory unsweet unsweetened unsweetness untasteful untunable untuned untuneful unwelcome verjuice vex vinegar vinegariness vinegarish vinegarishness vitriolic worsen yogurt

Verb(7 words)

mommick pollute soil turn upset the applecart vitiate work

Adjective(8 words)

moody morose off off-key rancid saturnine sullen turned

Noun(2 words)

sourness tartness

Adjective(1 words)

tart

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

12 relation types

More general

11 entries

change state change taste cocktail gustable gustatory perception gustatory sensation taste taste perception taste property taste sensation turn

More specific

13 entries

acescent acidulous lemon lemonish lemonlike lemony limelike limey picklesome sourish vinegarish vinegarlike vinegary

Antonyms

3 entries

sweet sweeten

Synonyms

5 entries

glowering off key rancid sourness turned

Related terms

1 entries

sourness

derived

44 entries

Boston sour New York sour amaretto sour besour fine and dandy like sour candy for sour apples go sour hot and sour soup laundry sour leave a sour taste in one's mouth pisco sour sour beer sour cherry sour corn sour cream sour crude

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distinct from

1 entries

sweet

has context

1 entries

music

is a

2 entries

cocktail taste

manner of

2 entries

change state change taste

related to

40 entries

acid bad tempered candy disenchanted drink dry fermentation infertile juice lemon lemon juice lemon taste lemons lime lime juice lips

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similar

36 entries

acerb acerbic acetose acetous acid acidic acidulent acidulous astringent dry ferment ill-natured ill-smelling inharmonious

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Translations

366 translations across 144 languages.

Adyghe

1 entries

хафэ adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Aklanon

1 entries

maaslom adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Albanian

1 entries

thartë adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Amis

1 entries

'acicim adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Ancient Greek

1 entries

στρυφνός adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Arabic

2 entries

حَامِض adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
مزز adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Aragonese

1 entries

agro adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Armenian

3 entries

թթու adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
թթու adj (made rancid by fermentation, etc.)
թթու adj (tasting or smelling rancid)

Assamese

1 entries

টেঙা adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Asturian

2 entries

agriu adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
ácidu adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

turş adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Basque

1 entries

garratz adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Belarusian

1 entries

кі́слы adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Bengali

3 entries

খাট্টা adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
চুকা adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
টেঙ্গা adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Bikol Central

1 entries

maalsom adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Bulgarian

4 entries

вкиснат adj (made rancid by fermentation, etc.)
вкиснат adj (tasting or smelling rancid)
ки́сел adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
киселинен adj ((of soil) excessively acidic and thus infertile)

Burmese

1 entries

ချဉ် adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Catalan

4 entries

agre adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
agre adj (made rancid by fermentation, etc.)
agre adj (tasting or smelling rancid)
àcid adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Cebuano

1 entries

aslom adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Central Kurdish

1 entries

تِرش adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Chamicuro

1 entries

chawawa adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Chechen

1 entries

муьста adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Cherokee

1 entries

ᏧᎿᏦᏍᏗ adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Chinese

2 entries

酸 adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
酸 adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

酸 adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

酸 adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
餿 /馊 adj (made rancid by fermentation, etc.)

Cornish

1 entries

trenk adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Czech

4 entries

kyselý adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
mrzutý adj (peevish or bad-tempered)
zahořklý adj (peevish or bad-tempered)
zkysaný adj (made rancid by fermentation, etc.)

Danish

4 entries

sur adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
sur adj (made rancid by fermentation, etc.)
sur adj (tasting or smelling rancid)
sur adj (peevish or bad-tempered)

Dolgan

1 entries

аһыы adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Dutch

1 entries

zuur adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Erzya

1 entries

чапамо adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Esperanto

2 entries

acerba adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
acida adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Estonian

1 entries

hapu adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Faroese

1 entries

súrur adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Fijian

1 entries

wiwi adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Finnish

4 entries

hapan adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
hapan adj (tasting or smelling rancid)
hapan adj (peevish or bad-tempered)
hapan adj ((of soil) excessively acidic and thus infertile)

French

4 entries

acariâtre adj (peevish or bad-tempered)
acerbe adj (peevish or bad-tempered)
aigre adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
rance adj (made rancid by fermentation, etc.)

Galician

4 entries

acedo adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
acedo adj (made rancid by fermentation, etc.)
agre adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
asmo adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Georgian

1 entries

მჟავე adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

German

4 entries

angesäuert adj (made rancid by fermentation, etc.)
bitter adj (peevish or bad-tempered)
garstig adj (tasting or smelling rancid)
gesäuert adj (made rancid by fermentation, etc.)

Greek

4 entries

ξινισμένος adj (made rancid by fermentation, etc.)
ξινισμένος adj (tasting or smelling rancid)
ξινός adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
ξινός adj (peevish or bad-tempered)

Hawaiian

2 entries

ʻawa adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
ʻawaʻawa adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Hebrew

1 entries

חָמוּץ adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Higaonon

1 entries

mapodos adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Hiligaynon

1 entries

maaslum adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Hindi

1 entries

खट्टा adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Hungarian

3 entries

fanyar adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
savanyú adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
savanyít verb (to make sour)

Ibanag

1 entries

nassem adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Icelandic

1 entries

súr adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Ido

1 entries

acerba adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Ilocano

1 entries

naalsem adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Indonesian

2 entries

asam adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
diasami adj (made rancid by fermentation, etc.)

Ingrian

4 entries

habrastava adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
hapan adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
hapannoittaa verb (to make sour)
hapantaa verb (to make sour)

Ingush

1 entries

миста adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Irish

4 entries

géar adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
géar adj (tasting or smelling rancid)
géaraigh verb (to make sour)
géaraigh verb (to become sour)

Italian

4 entries

agro adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
degenerare verb (to become disenchanted)
deteriorarsi verb (to become disenchanted)
inasprire verb (to make sour)

Japanese

2 entries

すっぱい adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
酸っぱい adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Javanese

1 entries

kecut adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Kapampangan

1 entries

maslam adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Kazakh

1 entries

қышқыл adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Khinalug

1 entries

мицӏ adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Khmer

2 entries

ខ្មេះ adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
ជូរ adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Kinaray-a

1 entries

aslëm adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Korean

4 entries

비뚤어지다 adj (peevish or bad-tempered)
시다 adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
시어진 adj (made rancid by fermentation, etc.)
신 adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Kyrgyz

1 entries

кычкыл adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Lao

2 entries

ປ້ຽວ adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
ສົ້ມ adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Latgalian

1 entries

skuobs adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Latin

2 entries

acidus adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
acescō verb (to become sour)

Latvian

4 entries

skābs adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
skābs adj (made rancid by fermentation, etc.)
skābs adj (tasting or smelling rancid)
skābs adj (peevish or bad-tempered)

Laz

1 entries

მჟაი adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Lithuanian

1 entries

rūgštus adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Livonian

1 entries

appõn adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Lombard

1 entries

brusch adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries

kisały adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Lü

1 entries

ᦉᦳᧄᧉ adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Macedonian

4 entries

ки́сел adj (peevish or bad-tempered)
кисел adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
кисела adj ((of soil) excessively acidic and thus infertile)
ски́снат adj (made rancid by fermentation, etc.)

Maguindanao

1 entries

masem adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Malay

2 entries

asam adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
masam adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Maltese

1 entries

qares adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Maranao

2 entries

asem adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
malasem adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Marathi

1 entries

आंबट adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Middle English

2 entries

sour adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
sowre adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Minangkabau

1 entries

masam adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Mingrelian

1 entries

მჟავე adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Mizo

1 entries

thûr adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Mongolian

1 entries

исгэлэн adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Māori

4 entries

kawa adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
ngākau kawa adj (peevish or bad-tempered)
ngākaukawa adj (peevish or bad-tempered)
whakakawa verb (to make sour)

Norman

1 entries

su adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Northern Kurdish

1 entries

tirş adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Northern Mansi

1 entries

восьрамыӈ adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Norwegian

1 entries

sur adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Occitan

1 entries

agre adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Odia

1 entries

ଆମ୍ବିଳିଆ adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Old Church Slavonic

2 entries

кꙑсѣлъ adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
осꙑрѣти verb (to become sour)

Old Czech

1 entries

kysělý adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Old English

2 entries

sūr adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
āfor adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Old Norse

1 entries

súrr adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Old Tupi

1 entries

aî adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Ottoman Turkish

4 entries

اكشی adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
حامض adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
اكشیمك verb (to become sour)
حامضلانمق verb (to become sour)

Pashto

1 entries

ترش adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Persian

1 entries

ترش adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

sua adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Polish

4 entries

kwaśny adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
zjełczały adj (made rancid by fermentation, etc.)
gorzknieć verb (to become sour)
kwaśnieć verb (to become sour)

Portuguese

4 entries

azedo adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
carrancudo adj (peevish or bad-tempered)
coalhado adj (made rancid by fermentation, etc.)
rançoso adj (tasting or smelling rancid)

Quechua

1 entries

k'allku adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Romanian

4 entries

acid adj ((of soil) excessively acidic and thus infertile)
acru adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
acru adj (tasting or smelling rancid)
acreală noun (the sensation of a sour taste)

Romansh

1 entries

asch adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Russian

2 entries

ки́слый adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
проки́сший adj (made rancid by fermentation, etc.)

S'gaw Karen

1 entries

ဆံၣ် adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Scottish Gaelic

4 entries

goirt adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
goirt adj (made rancid by fermentation, etc.)
goirt adj (tasting or smelling rancid)
gruamach adj (peevish or bad-tempered)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

kȉseo adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
ки̏сео adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Shan

1 entries

သူမ်ႈ adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Sikkimese

1 entries

སྐྱུམ adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Slovak

1 entries

kyslý adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Slovene

1 entries

kisel adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Southern Altai

1 entries

кычкыл adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Spanish

4 entries

acedado adj (made rancid by fermentation, etc.)
acedo adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
acescente adj (made rancid by fermentation, etc.)
agriado adj (made rancid by fermentation, etc.)

Svan

1 entries

მჷხიმ adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Swedish

4 entries

försurad adj ((of soil) excessively acidic and thus infertile)
grinig adj (peevish or bad-tempered)
sur adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
sur adj (tasting or smelling rancid)

Tagalog

2 entries

maasim adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
asim noun (the sensation of a sour taste)

Tahitian

1 entries

ʻavaʻava adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Tajik

1 entries

туруш adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Talysh

1 entries

tırş adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Tat

1 entries

turş adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Tausug

1 entries

maaslum adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Telugu

1 entries

పులుపు noun (the sensation of a sour taste)

Tetum

1 entries

siin adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Thai

2 entries

ส้ม adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
เปรี้ยว adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Tibetan

2 entries

སྐྱུར་མོ adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
སྐྱུར་མོ adj (made rancid by fermentation, etc.)

Turkish

4 entries

acımış adj (tasting or smelling rancid)
asitli adj ((of soil) excessively acidic and thus infertile)
asık suratlı adj (peevish or bad-tempered)
bayat adj (tasting or smelling rancid)

Turkmen

1 entries

turşy adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Ukrainian

1 entries

ки́слий adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Upper Sorbian

1 entries

kisały adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Urdu

1 entries

کھٹا adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Uzbek

2 entries

achchiq adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
nordon adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Vietnamese

1 entries

chua adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Walloon

1 entries

seur adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Waray-Waray

1 entries

maaslom adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Welsh

4 entries

egr adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
sur adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)
suro verb (to make sour)
suro verb (to become sour)

Western Bukidnon Manobo

1 entries

mepezes adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Yakut

1 entries

аһыы adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Yiddish

1 entries

זויער adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Zazaki

2 entries

beyat adj (tasting or smelling rancid)
tırş (diq) adj (having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste)

Sample sentences

30 total sentences available.

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Milk easily turns sour.

Source: tatoeba (19466)

The milk turned sour.

Source: tatoeba (19474)

The milk has turned sour.

Source: tatoeba (19480)

If you add lemon, it will become sour.

Source: tatoeba (29484)

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