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sour


Definition: Meaning of, sour in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / saʊə /

  • adjective
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Positive Comparative Superlative
sour sourer sourest
  1. having a sharp acid taste, like the taste of a LEMON or a fruit that is not ready to be eaten [↪  bitter]
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  2. milk or other food that is sour is not fresh and has a bad taste
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  3. unfriendly or looking bad-tempered
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  4. informal if a relationship or plan turns or goes sour, it becomes less enjoyable, pleasant, or satisfactory
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  5. sour grapes used to say that someone is pretending that they dislike something because they want it but cannot have it - used to show disapproval
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Prsesent Past Past Participle
sour soured soured
Present Participle Third Person Singular
souring sours
[intransitive and transitive]
  1. if a relationship or someone's attitude sours, or if something sours it, it becomes unfriendly or unfavourable
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  2. if milk sours, or if something sours it, it begins to have an unpleasant sharp taste
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sour used in phrases

  • sour bread (noun)
    1. made with a starter of a small amount of dough in which fermentation is active
  • sour cherry (noun)
    1. rather small Eurasian tree producing red to black acid edible fruit
    2. australian tree with sour red fruit
  • sour cherry tree (noun)
    1. rather small Eurasian tree producing red to black acid edible fruit
  • sour cream (noun)
    1. cream which has been made thicker by adding a type of BACTERIA
  • sour dock (noun)
    1. european sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens
  • sour fig (noun)
    1. low-growing South African succulent plant having a capsular fruit containing edible pulp
  • sour gourd (noun)
    1. australian tree having an agreeably acid fruit that resembles a gourd
    2. african gourd-like fruit with edible pulp
  • sour grapes (noun)
    1. disparagement of something that is unattainable
  • sour grass (noun)
    1. any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
  • sour gum (noun)
    1. columnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant colour in early fall
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