sour
noun
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
Types & categories
- cocktail hypernym
- whiskey sour hyponym
Sense 2 verb
go sour or spoil
The milk has soured
Types & categories
- change state hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 adjective
smelling of fermentation or staleness
Related & opposite
- rancidness derivation
- acidity derivation
- rancidity derivation
- malodorous similar to
Sense 4 noun
the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
Types & categories
- taste hypernym
- acidulousness hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 5 verb
make sour or more sour
Types & categories
- change taste hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 6 adjective
having a sharp biting taste
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Sense 7 noun
the property of being acidic
Types & categories
- taste property hypernym
- acerbity hyponym
- vinegariness hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 8 adjective
one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
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Sense 9 adjective
in an unpalatable state
sour milk
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Sense 10 adjective
inaccurate in pitch
a false (or sour) note
Related & opposite
- inharmonious similar to
Sense 11 adjective
showing a brooding ill humor
a dark scowl
Related & opposite
- sullenness derivation
- moodiness derivation
- sullenness derivation
- ill-natured similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | cocktail |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | whiskey sour |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | souring |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | zymosis |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | ferment |
| 2 | verb group | Related & opposite | ferment |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | change state |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | rancidness |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | acidity |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | rancidity |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | malodorous |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | acidify |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | sour |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | taste |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | acidulousness |
| 5 | antonym | Related & opposite | sweeten |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | acidity |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | sourness |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | vinegar |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | acetum |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | acid |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | change taste |
| 6 | also see | Related & opposite | dry |
| 6 | also see | Related & opposite | soured |
| 6 | also see | Related & opposite | tasty |
| 6 | antonym | Related & opposite | sweet |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | acidity |
| 6 | similar to | Related & opposite | astringent |
| 6 | similar to | Related & opposite | vinegary |
| 6 | similar to | Related & opposite | acidulent |
| 6 | similar to | Related & opposite | tart |
| 6 | similar to | Related & opposite | subacid |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | acidify |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | acid |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | sour |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | sour |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | turned |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | sour |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | taste property |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | acerbity |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | vinegariness |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | acidity |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | sourness |
| 8 | similar to | Related & opposite | tasty |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | acidity |
| 9 | similar to | Related & opposite | soured |
| 10 | similar to | Related & opposite | inharmonious |
| 11 | derivation | Related & opposite | sullenness |
| 11 | derivation | Related & opposite | moodiness |
| 11 | derivation | Related & opposite | sullenness |
| 11 | similar to | Related & opposite | ill-natured |