Crossword-Solution: SOUR
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sour | superl. | Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart. |
| Sour | superl. | Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned. |
| Sour | superl. | Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply. |
| Sour | superl. | Afflictive; painful. |
| Sour | superl. | Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh. |
| Sour | n. | A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect. |
| Sour | v. t. | To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances. |
| Sour | v. t. | To make cold and unproductive, as soil. |
| Sour | v. t. | To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable. |
| Sour | v. t. | To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly. |
| Sour | v. t. | To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes. |
| Sour | v. i. | To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SOUR | anagram | ORUS, OURS, ROSU, SUOR, SURO, UROS, URSO |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
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RAEA
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SOUR (5)
Marie wanted it, too, and she kept making signals to Frank, which he took a sour pleasure in disregarding.
Again and again he tried after the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: “I am sure they are sour.” It is easy to despise what you cannot get.
Day by day, nevertheless, their sour and rigid wrinkles were relaxing into something which, in the due course of years, might grow to be an expression of almost benevolence.
This sour joke seldom has to be said in full; if two hackers are looking over some code together and one points at a section and says "job security", the other one may just nod.
She had had bitter griefs, but they did not sour her spirit, and she had had the highest honors in the world’s gift, but she went her simple way unspoiled.
Quotes with SOUR (3)
Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.
A steampunk nation Baby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning 'cause Our art's official and only partially artificial And our heart's in the middle of sharp hardened shards of metal but There's not where it settles Because it's beating to the steaming of God's hottest pot or kettle And now we face it, this creation we made to To save our craving for a synthetic rebelnation it'sOur safeway they make into a pathetic revelation In our steampunk nation Our steampunk nation
Shithead Boss Man, eh? You know, Dylan, I really lucked out in the assistant department. The other partners in the firm have ended up with someone awful, who soothes them, is at their beck and call and agrees with them all the time. I got one who is sarcastic, argumentative, scruffy, rarely where he should be, and calls me Shithead Boss Man rather than Sir.” Jude laughs at him, before reaching out and swiping one of the prawns from my carton of sweet and sour. “He’d call you Sir if you spanked him.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 435 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).