Word Type

Verb

Noun

Adjective

Adjective

The word "sour" can be used as verb, noun, adjective and adjective.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

sweet sweet sweeten

Derived Terms

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 sour diesel sour fig sour gas sour gourd sour grapes sour grass sour gum sour honey sour krout sour mash sour milk sour mix sour note sour on sour puss sour shchi sour stomach sour tooth sour worm sour-sweet sourfaux sourly sourness sweet-and-sour sweet-and-sour sauce the grapes are sour anyway unsour whiskey sour

Distinct From

sweet

Context

music

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

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

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

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

Type Of (IsA)

cocktail taste

Manner Of

change state change taste

Related Terms

sourness

Related Terms

acid bad tempered candy disenchanted drink dry fermentation infertile juice lemon lemon juice lemon taste lemons lime lime juice lips macerate mar mortar new new candy peevish plaster puckering puckering lips rancid sensation sharp smelling soured spoil sugar sulfur tangy taste tasting tasty unfavorable unfortunate whiskey

Similar Terms

acerb acerbic acerbic acetose acetous acid acidic acidulent acidulent acidulous astringent dry ferment ill-natured ill-smelling inharmonious lemonlike lemonlike lemony malodorous malodourous soured sourish stinky subacid subacid tangy tart tasty tasty unharmonious unpleasant-smelling vinegarish vinegary vinegary work

Synonym Network

glowering off key rancid sourness turned

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