souradj/ˈsaʊ.ə/

• 1

  Tasting of acidity.

  • Lemons have a sour taste.
  • All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite.
• 2

  Made rancid by fermentation, etc.

  • Don't drink that milk; it's turned sour.
• 3

  Tasting or smelling rancid.

  • His sour breath makes it unpleasing to talk to him.
• 4

  Hostile or unfriendly.

  • He gave me a sour look.
  • He was a scholar […] / Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, / But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.
• 5

  Excessively acidic and thus infertile. (of soil)

  • sour land
  • a sour marsh
• 6

  Containing excess sulfur. (of petroleum)

  • sour gas smells like rotten eggs
• 7

  Unfortunate or unfavorable.

  • Let me embrace thee, sour adversity
  • The result may not quite give the Wearsiders a sweet ending to what has been a sour week, following allegations of sexual assault and drug possession against defender Titus Bramble, but it does at least demonstrate that their spirit remains strong in the face of adversity.
• 8

  entertainmentlifestylemusicOff-pitch, out of tune.

  • Unlike what the name implies, there is nothing inherently wrong with a sour note: It is perfectly well-tuned note that would sound normal in another context (and which presumably would not sound sour to someone unfamiliar with tonal music).

sournoun/ˈsaʊ.ə/

• 1

  The sensation of a sour taste.

• 2

  A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.

• 3

  Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.

• 4

  A sweet/candy having a sharply sour taste.

  • “You know I like them candies, especially the lemon sours.”
• 5

  A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.

  • For many Years of Sorrow can dispense; A Dram of Sweet is worth a Pound of Sour
• 6

  The acidic solution used in souring fabric.

sourverb/ˈsaʊ.ə/

• 1

  To make sour.

  • Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe.
• 2

  To become sour.

  • So the sun's heat, with different powers, / Ripens the grape, the liquor sours.
• 3

  To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.

  • To sour your happiness I must report, / The queen is dead.
  • He was prudent and industrious, and so good a husbandman, that he might have led a very easy and comfortable life, had not an arrant vixen of a wife soured his domestic quiet.
• 4

  To become disenchanted.

  • We broke up after our relationship soured.
• 5

  To make (soil) cold and unproductive.

  • stagnant water , which tends to sour the soil
• 6

  To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.

• 7

  To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.