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sour
Overview of noun sour
The noun sour has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. sour -- (a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar)
2. sour, sourness, tartness -- (the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth)
3. sourness, sour, acidity -- (the property of being acidic)
Overview of verb sour
The verb sour has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (2) sour, turn, ferment, work -- (go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out")
2. (1) sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify -- (make sour or more sour)
Overview of adj sour
The adj sour has 6 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) sour, rancid -- (smelling of fermentation or staleness)
2. sour -- (having a sharp biting taste)
3. sour -- (one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons)
4. off, sour, turned -- (in an unpalatable state; "sour milk")
5. false, off-key, sour -- (inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key")
6. dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen -- (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")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sour
3 senses of sour
Sense 1
sour
=> cocktail
=> mixed drink
=> alcohol, alcoholic beverage, intoxicant, inebriant
=> beverage, drink, drinkable, potable
=> food, nutrient
=> substance, matter
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> liquid
=> fluid
=> substance, matter
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> drug of abuse, street drug
=> drug
=> agent
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
sour, sourness, tartness
=> taste, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception
=> sensation, esthesis, aesthesis, sense experience, sense impression, sense datum
=> perception
=> basic cognitive process
=> process, cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
sourness, sour, acidity
=> taste property
=> property
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun sour
3 senses of sour
Sense 1
sour
=> whiskey sour, whisky sour
Sense 2
sour, sourness, tartness
=> acidity, acidulousness
Sense 3
sourness, sour, acidity
=> acerbity, tartness
=> vinegariness, vinegarishness
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sour
3 senses of sour
Sense 1
sour
=> cocktail
Sense 2
sour, sourness, tartness
=> taste, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception
Sense 3
sourness, sour, acidity
=> taste property
Antonyms of noun sour
Member Holonyms of noun sour
Substance Holonyms of noun sour
Part Holonyms of noun sour
Member Meronyms of noun sour
Substance Meronyms of noun sour
Part Meronyms of noun sour
Meronyms of noun sour
Holonyms of noun sour
Attributes of noun sour
Derived Forms of noun sour
2 of 3 senses of sour
Sense 2
sour, sourness, tartness
RELATED TO>(verb) sour#2
=> sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify
Sense 3
sourness, sour, acidity
RELATED TO>(verb) sour#2
=> sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify
Domain of noun sour
Domain Terms of noun sour
Familiarity of noun sour
sour used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun sour
3 senses of sour
Sense 1
sour
> cocktail
=> Bloody Mary
=> bullshot
=> daiquiri, rum cocktail
=> gimlet
=> grasshopper
=> Harvey Wallbanger
=> manhattan
=> margarita
=> martini
=> gin and it
=> old fashioned
=> pink lady
=> Sazerac
=> screwdriver
=> sidecar
=> sour
=> stinger
=> planter's punch
=> White Russian
Sense 2
sour, sourness, tartness
> taste, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception
=> relish, flavor, flavour, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, nip, tang
=> sweet, sweetness, sugariness
=> sour, sourness, tartness
=> bitter, bitterness
=> salt, saltiness, salinity
=> astringency, astringence
=> finish
=> flatness
=> mellowness
Sense 3
sourness, sour, acidity
> taste property
=> rancidness
=> spiciness, spice, spicery
=> sourness, sour, acidity
=> sweetness, sweet
=> bitterness, bitter
=> palatability, palatableness
=> unpalatability, unpalatableness
Meronyms of noun sour
3 senses of sour
Sense 1
sour
=> cocktail
=> mixed drink
HAS PART: mixer
=> alcohol, alcoholic beverage, intoxicant, inebriant
=> beverage, drink, drinkable, potable
=> food, nutrient
HAS PART: food, solid food
Holonyms of noun sour
Grep of noun sour
sour
sour-gum family
sour bread
sour cherry
sour cherry tree
sour cream
sour dock
sour fig
sour gourd
sour grapes
sour grass
sour gum
sour mash
sour mash whiskey
sour orange
sour salt
sourball
source
source book
source code
source language
source materials
source of illumination
source program
sourdine
sourdough
sourdough bread
soured cream
souring
sourness
sourpuss
soursop
soursop tree
sourwood
whiskey sour
whisky sour
Antonyms of verb sour
1 of 2 senses of sour
Sense 2
sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify
Antonym of sweeten (Sense 1)
=>sweeten, dulcify, edulcorate, dulcorate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb sour
2 senses of sour
Sense 1
sour, turn, ferment, work
=> change state, turn
=> change
Sense 2
sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify
=> change taste
=> change, alter, modify
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb sour
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb sour
2 senses of sour
Sense 1
sour, turn, ferment, work
=> change state, turn
Sense 2
sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify
=> change taste
'Cause To' of verb sour
Derived Forms of verb sour
2 senses of sour
Sense 1
sour, turn, ferment, work
RELATED TO>(noun) souring#1
=> souring
Sense 2
sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify
RELATED TO>(noun) sour#3
=> sourness, sour, acidity
RELATED TO>(noun) sour#2
=> sour, sourness, tartness
Domain of verb sour
Domain Terms of verb sour
Familiarity of verb sour
sour used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb sour
2 senses of sour
Sense 1
sour, turn, ferment, work
*> Something ----s
Sense 2
sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify
*> Something ----s
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb sour
2 senses of sour
Sense 1
sour, turn, ferment, work
> change state, turn
=> wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken
=> zonk out, pass out, black out
=> come to, revive, resuscitate
=> tense, tense up
=> relax, loosen up, unbend, unwind, decompress, slow down
=> reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down
=> gain, put on
=> dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel
=> cross-fertilize, cross-fertilise
=> conceive
=> secularize, secularise
=> citrate
=> equilibrate
=> fall
=> become, go, get
=> worsen, decline
=> better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate
=> disengage
=> overgrow
=> concentrate
=> break
=> acidify, acetify
=> alkalize, alkalise, alkalify, basify
=> ionize, ionise
=> ossify
=> catalyze, catalyse
=> get worse, relapse
=> fluctuate
=> explode, burst forth, break loose
=> die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
=> be born
=> cloud over
=> carbonize, carbonise
=> cool, chill, cool down
=> heat, hot up, heat up
=> carbonize, carbonise, carburize, carburise
=> freeze
=> boil
=> burn, combust
=> emaciate
=> Frenchify
=> thin
=> thicken, inspissate
=> solvate
=> react
=> dissolve, fade out, fade away
=> empty, discharge
=> fill, fill up
=> homogenize, homogenise
=> homogenize, homogenise
=> curdle, clabber, clot
=> clot, coagulate
=> sour, turn, ferment, work
=> integrate
=> precipitate
=> calcify
=> coke
=> carnify
=> chondrify
=> emulsify
=> denitrify
=> esterify
=> etherify
=> thrombose
=> open, open up
=> close, shut
=> sorb, take up
=> calm, calm down, cool off, chill out, simmer down, settle down, cool it
=> thrive, prosper, fly high, flourish
=> emancipate, liberate
=> get into, tangle with
=> liquefy
=> erupt, ignite, catch fire, take fire, combust, conflagrate
Sense 2
sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify
> change taste
=> sweeten, dulcify, edulcorate, dulcorate
=> bitter
=> sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb sour
Sense 1
sour, turn, ferment, work
=> change state, turn
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Sense 2
sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify
=> change taste
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Grep of verb sour
sour
source
Antonyms of adj sour
6 senses of sour
Sense 1
sour, rancid
INDIRECT (VIA malodorous) -> fragrant
Sense 2
sour (vs. sweet)
sweet (vs. sour)
=> cloying, saccharine, syrupy, treacly
=> sweetish
Sense 3
sour
INDIRECT (VIA tasty) -> tasteless
Sense 4
off, sour, turned
INDIRECT (VIA soured) -> unsoured
Sense 5
false, off-key, sour
INDIRECT (VIA inharmonious) -> harmonious
Sense 6
dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen
INDIRECT (VIA ill-natured) -> good-natured
Similarity of adj sour
6 senses of sour
Sense 1
sour, rancid
=> malodorous (vs. fragrant), malodourous, unpeasant-smelling, ill-smelling, stinky
Sense 2
sour (vs. sweet)
=> acerb, acerbic, astringent
=> acetose, acetous, vinegary, vinegarish
=> acidic, acid, acidulent, acidulous
=> lemony, lemonlike, sourish, tangy, tart
=> subacid
Also See> dry#6; soured#1; tasty#1
Sense 3
sour
=> tasty (vs. tasteless)
Sense 4
off, sour, turned
=> soured (vs. unsoured)
Sense 5
false, off-key, sour
=> inharmonious (vs. harmonious), unharmonious
Sense 6
dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen
=> ill-natured (vs. good-natured)
Pertainyms of adj sour
Attributes of adj sour
Domain of adj sour
Domain Terms of adj sour
Familiarity of adj sour
sour used as an adjective is common (polysemy count =6)
Grep of adj sour
sour
sour-tasting
soured
sourish
Grep of adv sour
sourly
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