sour
/ˈsaʊ.ɚ/ adjective B1- Tasting of acidity. · Lemons have a sour taste.
- Made rancid by fermentation, etc. · Don't drink that milk; it's turned sour.
- Tasting or smelling rancid. · His sour breath makes it unpleasing to talk to him.
- Hostile or unfriendly. · He gave me a sour look.
- Excessively acidic and thus infertile. (of soil) · sour land· a sour marsh
- Containing excess sulfur. (of petroleum) · sour gas smells like rotten eggs
- Unfortunate or unfavorable.
- Off-pitch, out of tune.
Comparative sourer · Superlative sourest
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
At last she turned away, hiding her disappointment and saying: “The Grapes are sour, and not ripe as I thought.”
Having sniffed the dead man’s lips I detected a slightly sour smell, and I came to the conclusion that he had had poison forced upon him.
Would you want to be that white-lace girl and wear a sour look all your life, as if you’d been born turning up your nose at the world?
Soup does very well without—Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,” she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, “and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered.
Other matches
Learn sour in real texts
With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.