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| Main Entry: | sour |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | alienate |
| Synonyms: | curdle, embitter, exacerbate, exasperate, spoil, turn, turn off, acidify, disenchant, envenom, make sour |
| Antonyms: | encourage, excite, incite |
| Main Entry: | sour |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad-tasting; gone bad |
| Synonyms: | acetic, acid, acidic, acrid, astringent, bad, biting, bitter, briny, caustic, cutting, dry, green, keen, musty, peppery, piquant, pungent, rancid, salty, sharp, stinging, tart, unpleasant, unripe, unsavory, unwholesome, acerb, acetose, acetous, acidulated, curdled, fermented, soured, sourish, turned, 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, embittered, grouchy, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irritable, jaundiced, on edge*, peevish, rotten, tart, ungenerous, unhappy, unpleasant, waspish, displeasing, grudging |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, cordial, friendly, happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cacophonous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harsh sounding |
| Synonyms: | discordant, dissonant, grating, inharmonious, jarring, noisy, raucous, sour, strident, clinking, disharmonic, ill-sounding, immusical, jangly, unmusical |
| Antonyms: | quiet |
| Main Entry: | cantankerous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, crabby |
| Synonyms: | bad-tempered, captious, choleric, contrary, cranky, critical, cross, crotchety*, crusty*, disagreeable, dour, grouchy*, grumpy*, huffy*, ill-natured, irascible, irritable, morose, obstinate, ornery*, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, snappish, sour, stuffy*, testy, bearish, ill-humored, vinegarish, vinegary |
| Antonyms: | easy, good-natured, happy, nice, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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-tempered, irascible, irritable, misanthropic, morose, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, saturnine, snappish, snappy, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, tart, testy, tough, trying, unsociable, ill-humored, nasty-tempered, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dour |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy, grim |
| Synonyms: | bleak, dismal, dreary, forbidding, glum, hard, harsh, morose, saturnine, severe, sour, stringent, sulky, sullen, surly, ugly, unfriendly, crabbed |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, cheery, happy |
| Main Entry: | embitter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | upset, alienate |
| Synonyms: | acerbate, aggravate, anger, annoy, bitter, bother, disaffect, disillusion, exacerbate, exasperate, irritate, poison, sour, venom, worsen, acidulate, envenom, make bitter, make resentful |
| Antonyms: | calm, comfort, pacify, make happy |
| Main Entry: | ferment |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | split into simpler substances; be agitated |
| Synonyms: | boil, brew, bubble, churn, concoct, dissolve, effervesce, evaporate, excite, fester, fizz, foam, foment, froth, heat, incite, inflame, leaven, overflow, provoke, ripen, rise, rouse, seethe, simmer, sour, sparkle, work, acidify, be violent, moil, stir up |
| Main Entry: | grim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless, horrible in manner, appearance |
| Synonyms: | austere, barbarous, bleak, cantankerous, churlish, cruel, crusty, dogged, ferocious, fierce, forbidding, foreboding, formidable, frightful, funereal, ghastly, gloomy, glum, grisly, grouchy, gruesome, grumpy*, harsh, hideous, implacable, inexorable, intractable, merciless, morose, ominous, relentless, resolute, ruthless, severe, shocking, sinister, somber, sour, stern, stubborn, sulky, sullen, surly, terrible, truculent, unrelenting, unyielding, crabbed, glowering, horrid, scowling, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, happy, hopeful, joyful, sunny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hostile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | antagonistic, mean |
| Synonyms: | adverse, alien, allergic, argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, bitter, catty*, chill*, cold*, competitive, contentious, contrary, dour, hateful, inhospitable, inimical, malevolent, malicious, malignant, militant, nasty, opposed, opposite, ornery*, pugnacious, sour*, spiteful, surly, unfavorable, unfriendly, unkind, unpropitious, unsociable, unsympathetic, viperous, virulent, vitriolic, warlike, anti*, disapproving, ill-disposed, oppugnant, rancorous, scrappy, unwelcoming |
| Notes: | a hostel is inexpensive supervised lodging, while hostile means characterized by enmity or ill will or very unfriendly or antagonistic |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, friendly, gentle, kind, nice, welcoming |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ill-tempered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable |
| Synonyms: | annoyed, bad-tempered, cantankerous, choleric, crabby, cross, crotchety, grouchy, grumpy, irascible, moody, nasty, quick-tempered, sharp, snappy, sour, spiteful, surly, testy, touchy, vicious, bearish |
| Main Entry: | morose |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, pessimistic |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, blue*, brusque, cantankerous, choleric, churlish, crabby*, cranky*, cross, dolorous, dour, down, down in the mouth*, frowning, gloomy, glum, grouchy, gruff, harsh, ill-tempered, irritable, low, melancholy, moody, mournful, perverse, sad, saturnine, snappish, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, taciturn, testy, troubled, ugly, crabbed, down in the dumps, having blue devils, having the blahs, ill-humored, in a bad mood, in a blue funk, moping, perversive, singing the blues, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, friendly, happy, optimistic, light-hearted, uplifted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | off-key |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not sounding right |
| Synonyms: | abnormal, anomalous, deviant, discordant, dissonant, divergent, flat, inharmonious, irregular, jarring, sour*, sour, unnatural, clinker, not harmonious, off-pitch, off-tone, out of keeping, out of pitch, out of tune, out of tune, sour note, unmusical, untuned |
| Antonyms: | harmonious, concordant, on-key |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ornery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mean |
| Synonyms: | cantankerous, contemptible, crabby, cranky, crusty*, difficult, disagreeable, grouchy*, grumpy*, hard-nosed, ignoble, ill-tempered, irritable, nasty, obstinate, quarrelsome, rotten, sour, surly, testy, unfriendly, vicious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | petulant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crabby, moody |
| Synonyms: | bad-tempered, captious, complaining, cranky*, cross, crybaby*, displeased, fault-finding, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumbling, huffy, impatient, irritable, mean, peevish, perverse, querulous, snappish, sour, sulky, sullen, testy, touchy, ungracious, uptight*, waspish, caviling, ill-humored, pouting, whining, whiny |
| Antonyms: | good-natured, happy, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | querulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grouchy, hard to please |
| Synonyms: | cantankerous, captious, carping, censorious, complaining, critical, cross, crying, discontented, dissatisfied, edgy, fault-finding, fretful, grumbling, irritable, lamenting, petulant, plaintive, snappy, sour, testy, uptight, waspish, bearish, bemoaning, deploring, grousing, grumbly, huffy irascible*, out of sorts peevish*, scrappy, thin-skinned touchy*, wailing, waspy, whimpering, whining, whiny |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, easy-going |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rancid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rotten, strong-smelling |
| Synonyms: | bad, disagreeable, disgusting, fetid, foul, frowzy, gamy, high, impure, loathsome, malodorous, moldy, musty, nasty, noisome, noxious, off, offensive, putrid, rank, repulsive, sharp, smelly, sour, stale, stinking, strong, tainted, unhealthy, carious, contaminated, curdled, decomposing, evil-smelling, feculent, fusty, nidorous, olid, polluted, putrefactive, putrefied, putrescent, reeky, soured, turned, whiffy |
| Antonyms: | perfumed, sweet |
| Main Entry: | remorseless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without guilt in spite of wrongdoing |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, barbarous, bloody, callous, cruel, fierce, forbidding, greedy, grim, hard, hardened, harsh, impenitent, implacable, inexorable, inhuman, insensitive, intolerant, merciless, murderous, obdurate, pitiless, relentless, rigorous, ruthless, savage, shameless, sour, tough, tyrannical, unforgiving, unmerciful, unrelenting, unyielding, vindictive, hard-bitten, hard-hearted, inhumane, sanguinary, uncompassionate, uncontrite, unregenerate, unremitting, unrepenting |
| Antonyms: | ashamed, guilty, remorseful, sad, sorry |
| Main Entry: | sulky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sullen |
| Synonyms: | cheerless, crabby*, depressed, dismal, dour, fretful, frowning, gloomy, glum, gruff, grumpy*, irritable, mean, moody, morose, obstinate, ornery*, sour, withdrawn, brooding, ill-humored, moping, pouting, pouty, sourpussed, sulking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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