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sour حامِض
sour ماضِر، مُحَمِّض
sour شَكِس، فَظ
sour يُحَمِّض
 
English - Wordnet 3.0    pronunciation

NOUN (3)

1. a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar;

2. the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth;
[syn: sour, sourness, tartness]

3. the property of being acidic;
[syn: sourness, sour, acidity]


VERB (2)

1. go sour or spoil;
- Example: "The milk has soured"
- Example: "The wine worked"
- Example: "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"
[syn: sour, turn, ferment, work]

2. make sour or more sour;
[syn: sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify]


ADJECTIVE (6)

1. smelling of fermentation or staleness;
[syn: sour, rancid]

2. having a sharp biting taste;

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

4. in an unpalatable state;
- Example: "sour milk"
[syn: off, sour, turned]

5. inaccurate in pitch;
- Example: "a false (or sour) note"
- Example: "her singing was off key"
[syn: false, off-key, sour]

6. showing a brooding ill humor;
- Example: "a dark scowl"
- Example: "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"
- Example: "a glum, hopeless shrug"
- Example: "he sat in moody silence"
- Example: "a morose and unsociable manner"
- Example: "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven
- Example: "a sour temper"
- Example: "a sullen crowd"
[syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen]