Word Meaning

Meaning of sour

- Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.
- Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned.
- Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply.
- Afflictive; painful.
- Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh.
- A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
- To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances.
- To make cold and unproductive, as soil.
- To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable.
- To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly.
- To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes.
- To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity.

Crossword clue for sour

- Acidic
- Become acrimonious
- drink made from lemon juice
- Embittered
- Go bad (of food)
- Gone Bad
- Having an acid taste
- Having an acid taste as vinegar
- Lemon’s taste
- Like green apples, say
- Opposite of sweet
- So you are bitter?
- Some old unsealed raspberries initially bitter
- Tart
- Tart tasting