| Main Entry: | sour |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad-tasting; gone bad |
Synonyms: |
acerb, acetic, acetose, acetous, acid, acidic, acidulated, acrid, astringent, bad, biting, bitter, briny, caustic, curdled, cutting, dry, fermented, green, keen, musty, peppery, piquant, pungent, rancid, salty, sharp, soured, sourish, stinging, tart, turned, unpleasant, unripe, unsavory, unwholesome, vinegary, with a kick |
Antonyms: |
good, pleasant, sweet, tasty |
| Main Entry: | sour |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in a bad mood |
Synonyms: |
acid, acrid, acrimonious, bitter, churlish, crabby, cynical, disagreeable, discontented, displeasing, embittered, grouchy, grudging, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irritable, jaundiced, on edge, peevish, rotten, tart, ungenerous, unhappy, unpleasant, waspish |
Antonyms: |
cheerful, cordial, friendly, happy |
| Main Entry: | sour |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | alienate |
Synonyms: |
acidify, curdle, disenchant, embitter, envenom, exacerbate, exasperate, make sour, spoil, turn, turn off |
Antonyms: |
encourage, excite, incite |
| Main Entry: | bad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | decayed |
Synonyms: |
moldy, off, putrid, rancid, rotten, sour, spoiled |
| Notes: | badly is an adverb to describe an activity; bad is an adjective to describe a condition or state |
Antonyms: |
good, ok, undecayed |
| Main Entry: | bitter |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pungent, sharp |
Synonyms: |
absinthal, absinthian, acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, amaroidal, astringent, harsh, sour, tart, unsweetened, vinegary |
Antonyms: |
bland, mild, pleasant, sweet |
| Main Entry: | bitter |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hostile, nasty |
Synonyms: |
acrimonious, alienated, antagonistic, begrudging, biting, caustic, crabby, divided, embittered, estranged, fierce, freezing, hateful, intense, irreconcilable, morose, rancorous, resentful, sardonic, severe, sore, sour, stinging, sullen, virulent, vitriolic, with chip on shoulder |
Antonyms: |
agreeable, content, genial, kind, nice, pleasant, sweet |
| Main Entry: | black |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angry |
Synonyms: |
enraged, fierce, furious, hostile, menacing, resentful, sour, sullen, threatening |
Antonyms: |
happy |
| Main Entry: | cacophonous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harsh sounding |
Synonyms: |
clinking, discordant, disharmonic, dissonant, grating, ill-sounding, immusical, inharmonious, jangly, jarring, noisy, raucous, sour, strident, unmusical |
Antonyms: |
quiet |
| Main Entry: | cantankerous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, crabby |
Synonyms: |
bad-tempered, bearish, captious, choleric, contrary, cranky, critical, cross, crotchety, crusty, disagreeable, dour, grouchy, grumpy*, huffy, ill-humored, ill-natured, irascible, irritable, morose, obstinate, ornery*, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, snappish, sour, stuffy, testy, vinegarish, vinegary |
Antonyms: |
easy, good-natured, happy, nice, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | crabby/crabbed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in a bad mood |
Synonyms: |
acid, acrid, acrimonious, awkward, bad-tempered, blunt, brusque, captious, choleric, churlish, cranky*, cross, crotchety, crusty, cynical, difficult, dour, fretful, gloomy, glum, grouchy, harsh, huffy, ill-humored, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, misanthropic, morose, nasty-tempered, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, saturnine, snappish, snappy, sour, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, tart, testy, tough, trying, unsociable |
Antonyms: |
happy |