having a sharp biting taste

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

[ Syn: sourness , tartness ]

the property of being acidic

[ Syn: sourness , acidity ]

smelling of fermentation or staleness

[ Syn: rancid ]

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

in an unpalatable state; sour milk

[ Syn: off , turned ]

inaccurate in pitch; a false (or sour) note; her singing was off key

[ Syn: false , off-key ]

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

[ Syn: dark , dour , glowering , glum , moody , morose , saturnine , sullen ]

go sour or spoil; The milk has soured; The wine worked; The cream has turned--we have to throw it out

[ Syn: turn , ferment , work ]

make sour or more sour

[ Syn: acidify , acidulate , acetify ]