Sour vs. Sweet
Difference Between Sour and Sweet
Souradjective
Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
Lemons have a sour taste.Sweetadjective
Having a pleasant taste, especially one relating to the basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
a sweet appleSouradjective
Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
sour milkSweetadjective
Having a taste of sugar.
Souradjective
Tasting or smelling rancid.
sour stinkSweetadjective
Containing a sweetening ingredient.
Souradjective
Peevish or bad-tempered.
He gave me a sour look.Sweetadjective
(wine) Retaining a portion of sugar.
Sweet wines are better dessert wines.Souradjective
Excessively acidic and thus infertile.
sour landa sour marshSweetadjective
Not having a salty taste.
sweet butterSouradjective
Containing excess sulfur.
Sweetadjective
Having a pleasant smell.
a sweet scentSouradjective
Unfortunate or unfavorable.
Sweetadjective
Not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale.
sweet milkSouradjective
(music) Off-pitch, out of tune.
Sweetadjective
Having a pleasant sound.
a sweet tuneSournoun
The sensation of a sour taste.
Sweetadjective
Having a pleasing disposition.
a sweet childSournoun
A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
Sweetadjective
Having a helpful disposition.
It was sweet of him to help out.Sournoun
(by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
Sweetadjective
(mineralogy) Free from excessive unwanted substances like acid or sulphur.
sweet soilsweet crude oilSournoun
A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
Sweetadjective
(informal) Very pleasing; agreeable.
The new Lexus was a sweet birthday gift.Sourverb
(transitive) To make sour.
Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe.Sweetadjective
}} Romantically fixated, enamored (followed by with), fond (followed by of).
The attraction was mutual and instant; they were sweet on one another from first sight.Sourverb
(intransitive) To become sour.
Sweetadjective
(obsolete) Fresh; not salt or brackish.
sweet waterSourverb
(transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
Sweetadjective
Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair.
a sweet face; a sweet colour or complexionSourverb
(intransitive) To become disenchanted.
We broke up after our relationship soured.Sweetadverb
In a sweet manner.
Sourverb
(transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
Sweetnoun
(uncountable) The basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
Sourverb
To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
Sweetnoun
A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy.
Sournoun
a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
Sweetnoun
A food eaten for dessert.
Can we see the sweet menu, please?Sournoun
the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
Sweetnoun
sweetheart; darling.
Sournoun
the property of being acidic
Sweetnoun
(obsolete) That which is sweet or pleasant in odour; a perfume.
Sourverb
go sour or spoil;
The milk has souredThe wine workedThe cream has turned--we have to throw it outSweetnoun
(obsolete) Sweetness, delight; something pleasant to the mind or senses.
Sourverb
make sour or more sour
Sweetnoun
English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912)
Souradjective
smelling of fermentation or staleness
Sweetnoun
a dish served as the last course of a meal
Souradjective
having a sharp biting taste
Sweetnoun
a food rich in sugar
Souradjective
one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
Sweetnoun
the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth
Souradjective
in an unpalatable state;
sour milkSweetnoun
the property of containing sugar
Souradjective
inaccurate in pitch;
a false (or sour) noteher singing was off keySweetadjective
having a pleasant taste (as of sugar)
Souradjective
showing a brooding ill humor;
a dark scowlthe proverbially dour New England Puritana glum, hopeless shrughe sat in moody silencea morose and unsociable mannera saturnine, almost misanthropic young geniusa sour tempera sullen crowdSweetadjective
having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub;
an angelic smilea cherubic facelooking so seraphic when he slepta sweet dispositionSweetadjective
pleasing to the ear;
the dulcet tones of the celloSweetadjective
one of the four basic taste sensations; very pleasant; like the taste of sugar or honey
Sweetadjective
pleasing to the senses;
the sweet song of the larkthe sweet face of a childSweetadjective
pleasing to the mind or feeling;
sweet revengeSweetadjective
having a natural fragrance;
odoriferous spicesthe odorous air of the orchardthe perfumed air of Junescented flowersSweetadjective
(used of wines) having a sweet taste
Sweetadjective
not soured or preserved;
sweet milkSweetadjective
with sweetening added
Sweetadjective
not having a salty taste;
sweet waterSweetadverb
in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly');
Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetlyhow sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this banktalking sweet to each other
