sour

Meaning

1. Tasting of acidity.
2. Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
3. Tasting or smelling rancid.
4. Hostile or unfriendly.
5. Excessively acidic and thus infertile. (of soil)
6. Containing excess sulfur. (of petroleum)
7. Unfortunate or unfavorable.
8. Off-pitch, out of tune.

acid

bitter

make sour

bad tasting

become sour

turn sour

very sour

bad taste

be fermented

go sour

make bitter

not sweet

taste sour

become sharp

look displeased

acidum

acid taste

sour-smelling

strong-smelling

like vinegar

of an acid flavor

sour-tasting

vinegariness

vinegarishness

without finer feelings

bitter tasting

poignant

trenchant

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsaʊə/

From Middle English sour, from Old English sūr (“sour”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūr, from Proto-Germanic *sūraz (“sour”), from Proto-Indo-European *súHros (“sour”). Cognate with West Frisian soer, Dutch zuur (“sour”), Low German suur, German sauer (“sour”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sur, French sur (“sour”), Faroese súrur (“sour”), Icelandic súr (“sour, bitter”), Polish ser (“cheese”), Czech sýr (“cheese”), Slovak syr (“cheese”), Russian сырой (syroj, “raw”), Ukrainian сири́й (syrýj, “raw”), Old Church Slavonic сꙑръ (syrŭ, “moist, cheese”).