n. a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar

n. the property of being acidic

n. the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth

v. go sour or spoil; "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"

v. make sour or more sour

adj. having a sharp biting taste

adj. one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons

adj. smelling of fermentation or staleness

adj. inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"

adj. in an unpalatable state; "sour milk"

adj. 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"

v. form bubbles; "The boiling soup was frothing"; "The river was foaming"; "Sparkling water"

v. end weakly; "The music just petered out--there was no proper ending"

v. form, produce, or emit bubbles; "The soup was bubbling"

v. stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter

v. be noisy with activity; "This office is buzzing with activity"

v. make worse; "This drug aggravates the pain"

v. increase in extent or intensity; "The Allies escalated the bombing"

v. make sharp or sharper; "sharpen the knives"

v. cause to be bitter or resentful; "These injustices embittered her even more"

v. add poison to; "Her husband poisoned her drink in order to kill her"

v. gnaw into; make resentful or angry; "The injustice rankled her"; "his resentment festered"

adj. strong and sharp;"the pungent taste of radishes"; "the acrid smell of burning rubber"

adj. one of the four basic taste sensations; sharp and disagreeable; like the taste of quinine

adj. having an agreeably pungent taste

adj. one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons

adj. keenly distressing to the mind or feelings; "poignant anxiety"

adj. strong and sharp;"the pungent taste of radishes"; "the acrid smell of burning rubber"

adj. strong and sharp;"the pungent taste of radishes"; "the acrid smell of burning rubber"

adj. having a sharp biting taste

adj. keenly distressing to the mind or feelings; "poignant anxiety"

adj. sour or bitter in taste

adj. very clearly delineated; "razor-sharp definition"

adj. causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"

adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

adj. grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"

adj. reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces"

adj. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"

adj. excessively mournful

adj. relating to or caused by temperament; "temperamental indifference to neatness"; "temperamental peculiarities"

adj. showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"

adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

adj. harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation"; "a vitriolic critique"

adj. tasting or smelling like vinegar

adj. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly"

adj. concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities; "a serious student of history"; "a serious attempt to learn to ski"; "gave me a serious look"; "a serious young man"; "are you serious or joking?"; "Don't be so serious!"

adj. suggesting the horror of death and decay; "morbid details"

adj. grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"

adj. persistently or morbidly thoughtful

adj. (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation; "a dry white burgundy"; "a dry Bordeaux"

adj. having turned bad

adj. having or showing or conforming to good taste

adj. extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant; "a nectarous drink"; "ambrosial food"

adj. one of the four basic taste sensations; sharp and disagreeable; like the taste of quinine

adj. somewhat bitter

adj. having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness

adj. especially pleasing to the taste; "a dainty dish to set before a kind"; "a tasty morsel"

adj. extremely pleasing to the sense of taste

adj. aged or processed; "seasoned wood"

adj. full of flavor

adj. marked by richness and fullness of flavor; "a rich ruby port"; "full-bodied wines"; "a robust claret"; "the robust flavor of fresh-brewed coffee"

adj. having an agreeably pungent taste

adj. one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water

adj. tasting of smoke; "smoky sausages"

adj. having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar

adj. having the taste of wine; "a rich winy taste"

adj. smelling of onions or garlic

adj. smelling like bilge water

adj. offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky"

adj. stale and unclean smelling

adj. (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted

adj. of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution

adj. (British informal) malodorous

adj. emitting an odor; "odorous salt pork and weevily hardtack"

adj. having a strong unpleasant smell

adj. giving off a strong unpleasant smell

adj. lacking in harmony

adj. characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved

adj. (soured)

adj. inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits; "a style described as abrasive and contentious"; "a disputatious lawyer"; "a litigious and acrimonious spirit"

adj. irritable as if suffering from indigestion

adj. very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"

adj. having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers

adj. quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander"

adj. perversely irritable

adj. easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

adj. brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply"

adj. quick to take offense

adj. sullen or moody

adj. hating mankind in general

adj. hating women in particular

adj. (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed

adj. continually complaining or faultfinding; "a shrewish wife"; "nagging parents"

adj. inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"

v. make sweeter in taste

adj. having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar

adj. overly sweet

adj. disposed to please; "an amiable villain with a cocky sidelong grin"- Hal Hinson