SOUR vs ACERBIC: NOUN
- The taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
- A cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
- The property of being acidic
- A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
- Dirt; filth.
- In drenching or puering skins, the old liquor which has become sour or turned.
- An acid punch.
- A mixed drink made especially with whiskey, lemon or lime juice, sugar, and sometimes soda water.
- Something sour or acid; something bitter or disagreeable.
- The sensation of sour taste, one of the four primary tastes.
- In bleaching and dyeing:
- A bath of buttermilk or sour milk, or of soured bran or rye-flour, used by primitive bleachers.
- A weak solution of sulphuric or hydrochloric acid, used for various purposes. Compare souring, 5.
- Something sour.
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SOUR vs ACERBIC: ADJECTIVE
- Containing excessive levels of sulfur compounds, carbon dioxide, or both. Used of oil and natural gas.
- Of or relating to excessively acid soil that is damaging to crops.
- Not having the correct or properly produced pitch.
- Not measuring up to the expected or usual ability or quality; bad.
- Displeased with something one formerly admired or liked; disenchanted.
- Bad-tempered and morose; peevish.
- Having the characteristics of fermentation or rancidity; tasting or smelling of decay.
- Made acid or rancid by fermentation.
- Having a taste characteristic of that produced by acids; sharp, tart, or tangy.
- Showing a brooding ill humor
- Inaccurate in pitch
- In an unpalatable state
- Smelling of fermentation or staleness
- Having a sharp biting taste
- Containing excessive levels of peroxides. Used of gasoline.
- One of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
- Sharp-tempered.
- Sarcastic or cynical.
- Sour or bitter.
- Sour or severe.
- Sour or bitter in taste
- Harsh or corrosive in tone
SOUR vs ACERBIC: VERB
- Go sour or spoil
- Make sour or more sour
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SOUR vs ACERBIC: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour
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SOUR vs ACERBIC: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly.
- To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable.
- To make cold and unproductive, as soil.
- To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour.
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SOUR vs ACERBIC: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Sourly; bitterly.
- To become harsh, wet, cold, or unkindly to crops: said of soil.
- To become peevish, crabbed, or harsh in temper.
- Cross, testy, waspish, snarling, cynical.
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- Synonyms Acetous, acetose.
- Coarse: said of grass.
- Cold; wet; harsh; unkindly to crops: said of soil.
- To become sour; become acid; acquire the quality of tartness or pungency to the taste, as by fermentation: as, cider sours rapidly in the rays of the sun.
- Afflictive; hard to bear; bitter; disagreeable to the feelings; distasteful in any manner.
- Like the taste of vinegar or lemons
- Harsh of temper; crabbed; peevish; austere; morose: as, a man of a sour temper.
- Having an acid taste; sharp to the taste; tart; acid; specifically, acid in consequence of fermentation; fermented, and thus spoiled: as, sour bread; sour milk.
- To macerate and render fit for plaster or mortar, as lime.
- In bleaching, etc., to treat with a dilute acid.
- To make harsh, crabbed, morose, or bitter in temper; make cross or discontented; embitter; prejudice.
- To make sour; make acid; cause to have a sharp taste, especially by fermentation.
- Expressing discontent, displeasure, or peevishness: as, a sour word.
- (transitive; intransitive verb) To make or become sour.
- (transitive; intransitive verb) To make or become disagreeable, disillusioned, or disenchanted.
- Of a harsh character.
SOUR vs ACERBIC: RELATED WORDS
- Acidulous, Ferment, Unharmonious, Tangy, Sullen, Astringent, Morose, Vinegary, Malodorous, Lemony, Acidic, Dour, Glum, Tart, Rancid
- Acerb, Acid, Sulphurous, Sulfurous, Sour, Sharp, Unpleasant, Acrid, Blistering, Virulent, Bitter, Astringent, Venomous, Vitriolic, Caustic
SOUR vs ACERBIC: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Acidulous, Ferment, Unharmonious, Tangy, Sullen, Astringent, Morose, Vinegary, Malodorous, Lemony, Acidic, Dour, Glum, Tart, Rancid
- Acerb, Acid, Sulphurous, Sulfurous, Sour, Sharp, Unpleasant, Acrid, Blistering, Virulent, Bitter, Astringent, Venomous, Vitriolic, Caustic
SOUR vs ACERBIC: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Similarly, as noted in the section on sour taste, acids taste predominantly sour, but also taste salty and bitter.
- Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply.
- Sour Kush is a cross between OG Kush and Sour Diesel.
- Okay, it was once sour and eventually turned even more sour, but in the moment, Sam knew exactly what to say.
- Sour: The sour taste is found in lemons, limes, vinegar, yogurt, cheese, and plums.
- Behaving sour while calling another sour because their opinion and experience is different.
- The taste of sour cream is only mildly sour.
- Sour cherries he G received two complaints about anomalies found on the sour cherry market, relating to sour cherry purchase prices.
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- This mix includes Sour Lemon, Sour Cherry, Sour Grape, Sour Apple and Sour Orange.
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- An acrid coffee can be described as tart, sharp, or acerbic.
- Daria was already shown to be smart, cynical, acerbic and alienated.
- Paul was often acerbic in his rebuke of the Corinthians.
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- The movie is refreshing and an acerbic comedy.
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