sour




sour - noun

  • 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
  • the property of being acidic

    • sour - verb

    • go sour or spoil
    • make sour or more sour

    sour - adjective

    • having a sharp biting taste
    • smelling of fermentation or staleness
    • one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
    • in an unpalatable state
    • inaccurate in pitch
    • showing a brooding ill humor

    sour - thesaurus

    acetify   acidify   acidity   acidulate   dark   dour   false   ferment   glowering   glum   moody   morose   off   rancid   saturnine   sourness   sullen   tartness   turn   turned   work  


    View spelling list ou words - set 1 and learn about the word sour in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 15. Spelling choices for /ou/ sound: ou, ow.

    Other Spellzone word lists: Food, flavours

    Scrabble score for sour

    s is 1 o is 1 u is 1 r is 1
    Scrabble score = 4

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