Found 4 items, similar to Sourest.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: sour
asam
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: sour
asam, kandi, masam
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: sour
sour
adj 1: smelling of fermentation or staleness [syn:
rancid]
2: having a sharp biting taste [ant:
sweet]
3: one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of
vinegar or lemons
4: in an unpalatable state;
“sour milk” [syn:
off,
turned]
5: inaccurate in pitch;
“a false (or sour) note”;
“her singing
was off key” [syn:
false,
off-key]
6: 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” [syn:
dark,
dour,
glowering,
glum,
moody,
morose,
saturnine,
sullen]
sour
n 1: a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin)
mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
2: the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken
into the mouth [syn:
sourness,
tartness]
3: the property of being acidic [syn:
sourness,
acidity]
sour
v 1: go sour or spoil;
“The milk has soured”;
“The wine worked”;
“The cream has turned--we have to throw it out” [syn:
turn,
ferment,
work]
2: make sour or more sour [syn:
acidify,
acidulate,
acetify]
[ant:
sweeten]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Sourest
Sour
\Sour\, a. [Compar.
Sourer; superl.
Sourest.] [OE.
sour, sur, AS. s?r; akin to D. zuur, G. sauer, OHG. s?r,
Icel. s?rr, Sw. sur, Dan. suur, Lith. suras salt, Russ.
surovui harsh, rough. Cf.
Sorrel, the plant.]
1. Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and
the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.
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All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite.
--Bacon.
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2. Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or
musty, turned.
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3. Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish;
morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply.
“A sour
countenance.” --Swift.
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He was a scholar . . .
Lofty and sour to them that loved him not,
But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.
--Shak.
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4. Afflictive; painful.
“Sour adversity.” --Shak.
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5. Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh.
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Sour dock (Bot.), sorrel.
Sour gourd (Bot.), the gourdlike fruit
Adansonia Gregorii
, and
A. digitata; also, either of the trees
bearing this fruit. See
Adansonia.
Sour grapes. See under
Grape.
Sour gum (Bot.) See
Turelo.
Sour plum (Bot.), the edible acid fruit of an Australian
tree (
Owenia venosa); also, the tree itself, which
furnished a hard reddish wood used by wheelwrights.
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Syn: Acid; sharp; tart; acetous; acetose; harsh; acrimonious;
crabbed; currish; peevish.
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