English to Persian Dictionary Online
Definition of "sour"

sour

Từ điển Collocation

sour adj.

¹ having a sharp taste

VERBS be, taste The sauce tasted very sour.

ADV. extremely, very | a bit, quite, rather, slightly

² not fresh

VERBS be, smell, taste The milk smelled sour. | go, turn By the next day the wine had turned sour.

ADV. very | a bit, rather, slightly

³ bad-tempered

VERBS be | go, grow, turn | a bit, a little, rather, slightly, somewhat Their friendship has turned a little sour.

ADV. extremely, really, very

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Từ điển WordNet

n.

• a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
• the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth; sourness, tartness
• the property of being acidic; sourness, acidity

v.

• go sour or spoil; turn, ferment, work

  The milk has soured

  The wine worked

  The cream has turned--we have to throw it out

• make sour or more sour; acidify, acidulate, acetify

adj.

• smelling of fermentation or staleness; rancid
• having a sharp biting taste
• one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
• in an unpalatable state; off, turned

  sour milk

• inaccurate in pitch; false, off-key

  a false (or sour) note

  her singing was off key

• showing a brooding ill humor; dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sullen

  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

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English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

sours|soured|souring|sourer|sourest
syn.: bitter disagreeable peevish rancid unpleasant
ant.: sweet