sourness

sourness
See sourish.

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  • Sourness — Sour ness, n. The quality or state of being sour. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Sourness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Sourness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 sourness sourness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 acid acid acidity Sgm: N 1 acetous fermentation acetous fermentation GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 vinegar vinegar verjuice …   English dictionary for students

  • sourness — noun The quality or condition of being sour, usually said of human personalities. 1811 Mrs. Ferrars was a little, thin woman, upright, even to formality, in her figure, and serious, even to sourness , in her aspect. Jane Austen, Sense and… …   Wiktionary

  • sourness — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Acid taste Nouns 1. sourness, acid[ity], acerbity, acridity, astringency, tartness, rancidness, unsavoriness. See taste, pungency, discord. 2. (sour substance) vinegar, acetum, verjuice, acetic acid, alum; …   English dictionary for students

  • sourness — sour ► ADJECTIVE 1) having a sharp taste like lemon or vinegar. 2) tasting or smelling rancid from fermentation or staleness. 3) resentful, bitter, or angry. ► NOUN ▪ a cocktail made by mixing a spirit with lemon or lime juice. ► VERB ▪ make or… …   English terms dictionary

  • sourness — noun see sour I …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • sourness — Synonyms and related words: Faustianism, acerbity, acidity, acidulousness, acridity, acridness, acrimony, anger, animosity, animus, asperity, astringence, astringency, atonalism, atonality, bad blood, bad humor, bad temper, bile, biliousness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • sourness — sour·ness || saÊŠÉ™rnɪs n. acidity, sour flavor; bitterness, disillusionment, resentment …   English contemporary dictionary

  • sourness — n. 1. Acidity, tartness, sharpness. 2. Acrimony, asperity, moroseness, harshness, crabbedness, churlishness, peevishness, discontent, crossness …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • sourness — sour·ness …   English syllables

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