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单词 sour
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souradjective

uk/saʊər/us/saʊr/

sour adjective (TASTE)

B1 having a sharp, sometimes unpleasant, taste or smell, like a lemon, and not sweet:

These plums are a bit sour.

More examples

  • I used sour cream in the soup.
  • Add extra sugar if the rhubarb is too sour.
  • I love the sour taste of limes.

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Flavours & tastes

  • acidic
  • acidity
  • acidulous
  • aftertaste
  • bite
  • bitter
  • cheesy
  • flavourful
  • flavourless
  • flavoursome
  • full-bodied
  • gamy
  • plummy
  • savour
  • sugary
  • sweet-and-sour
  • sweetness
  • tang
  • tangy
  • toasty

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Smells & smelling
Not pleasant to eat or drink

sour adjective (BAD FEELING)

unfriendly or easily annoyed:

Overnight, it seemed, their relationship had turned sour.
She gave me a sour look.

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Not being friendly

  • (at) daggers drawn idiom
  • abrasive
  • antisocial
  • asocial
  • austere
  • estrange
  • estranged
  • forbidding
  • frostily
  • give sb the time of day idiom
  • hostile
  • icy
  • mixer
  • saturnine
  • unsociable
  • unwelcoming
  • wintry
  • with friends like you, who needs enemies? idiom
  • withdraw
  • withdrawal

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Bad-tempered
sourly
adverb uk/ˈsaʊə.li/us/ˈsaʊr.li/
sourness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈsaʊə.nəs/us/ˈsaʊr.nəs/

Idiom(s)

sour grapes

sourverb [ I or T ]

uk/saʊər/us/saʊr/

sour verb [ I or T ] (TASTE)

to become sour or to make something become sour:

Hot weather sours milk.
Milk sours in hot weather.

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Damaging and spoiling

  • adulterate
  • alloy
  • at the expense of sb idiom
  • at-risk
  • bandh
  • bang up sb/sth
  • foul
  • gild the lily idiom
  • gloss
  • gnaw
  • gnaw away at sth
  • go west idiom
  • goonda
  • poison
  • ravages
  • ruin
  • scourge
  • shatter
  • shoot sth up
  • tell on sb

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sour verb [ I or T ] (BAD FEELING)

to (cause to) become unpleasant or unfriendly:

Her whole attitude to life soured as a result of that experience.
This incident has soured relations between the two countries.

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Damaging and spoiling

  • adulterate
  • alloy
  • at the expense of sb idiom
  • at-risk
  • bandh
  • bang up sb/sth
  • foul
  • gild the lily idiom
  • gloss
  • gnaw
  • gnaw away at sth
  • go west idiom
  • goonda
  • poison
  • ravages
  • ruin
  • scourge
  • shatter
  • shoot sth up
  • tell on sb

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sournoun [ C ]

uk/saʊər/us/saʊr/mainly US

a drink made from strong alcohol, lemon, or lime juice, sugar, and ice:

a whisky sour

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Cocktails

  • Bloody Mary
  • Buck's Fizz
  • caipirinha
  • cocktail
  • cup
  • daiquiri
  • gimlet
  • highball
  • kir
  • manhattan
  • margarita
  • mimosa
  • mint julep
  • mojito
  • Pimm's
  • punch
  • sangria
  • spritzer
  • swizzle stick

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