Definition of sour

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• sour is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 4
• sour is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 4
• sour is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 5

Definition of sour

• inaccurate in pitch (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a false (or sour) note

  Synonyms

  1. false
  2. off-key
• smelling of fermentation or staleness (adjective)

  Synonyms

  1. rancid
• the property of being acidic (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. acidity
  2. sourness
• showing a brooding ill humor (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a sour temper

  Synonyms

  1. dark
  2. dour
  3. glowering
  4. glum
  5. moody
  6. morose
  7. saturnine
  8. sullen
• in an unpalatable state (adjective)

  Examples

  1. sour milk

  Synonyms

  1. off
  2. turned
• go sour or spoil (verb)

  Examples

  1. The milk has soured

  Synonyms

  1. ferment
  2. turn
  3. work
• the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. sourness
  2. tartness
• make sour or more sour (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. acetify
  2. acidify
  3. acidulate
• a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar (noun)
• having a sharp biting taste (adjective)
• one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons (adjective)

See definition of sour in Merriam Webster