sour

1. A cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar (synset 107934268)
   is a type of: cocktail - a short mixed drink
   subtypes: whiskey sour, whisky sour - a sour made with whiskey
2. The taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth (synset 105724691)
   is a type of: gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, taste, taste perception, taste sensation - the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus
   subtypes: acidity, acidulousness - the taste experience when something acidic is taken into the mouth
   same as: sourness, tartness
3. The property of being acidic (synset 105001060)
   is a type of: taste property - a property appreciated via the sense of taste
   subtypes:

   • acerbity, tartness - a sharp sour taste
   • vinegariness, vinegarishness - a sourness resembling that of vinegar
   same as: acidity, sourness

1. Smelling of fermentation or staleness (synset 301058621)
   similar to: ill-smelling, malodorous, malodourous, stinky, unpleasant-smelling - having an unpleasant smell
   same as: rancid
2. Having a sharp biting taste (synset 302377355)
   also:

   • dry - (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation
   • soured - having turned bad
   • tasty - pleasing to the sense of taste
   similar to:

   • acerb, acerbic, astringent - sour or bitter in taste
   • acetose, acetous, vinegarish, vinegary - tasting or smelling like vinegar
   • acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous - being sour to the taste
   • lemonlike, lemony, sourish, tangy, tart - tasting sour like a lemon
   • subacid - slightly sour to the taste
3. One of the four basic taste sensations;
   Like the taste of vinegar or lemons (synset 302407738)
   similar to: tasty - pleasing to the sense of taste
4. In an unpalatable state (synset 302378437)
   "sour milk"
   similar to: soured - having turned bad
   same as: off, turned
5. Inaccurate in pitch (synset 301167964)
   "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"
   similar to: inharmonious, unharmonious - not in harmony
   same as: false, off-key
6. Showing a brooding ill humor (synset 301140878)
   "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"; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
   similar to: ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition
   same as: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sullen

1. Go sour or spoil (synset 200459426)
   "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"
   is a type of: change state, turn - undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
   same as: ferment, turn, work
   verb group: ferment, work - cause to undergo fermentation
2. Make sour or more sour (synset 202201136)
   is a type of: change taste - alter the flavor of
   same as: acetify, acidify, acidulate

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