Austere vs Sour - What's the difference?
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Grim or severe in manner or appearance
Lacking trivial decoration; not extravagant or gaudy
Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
* Francis Bacon
Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
Tasting or smelling rancid.
Peevish or bad-tempered.
* Shakespeare
(of soil) Excessively acidic and thus infertile.
(of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur.
Unfortunate or unfavorable.
* Shakespeare
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The sensation of a sour taste.
A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
(label) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
(label) To make sour.
(label) To become sour.
* Jonathan Swift
(label) To make disenchanted.
* Shakespeare
(label) To become disenchanted.
(label) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
Austere is a related term of sour.
As adjectives the difference between austere and sour
is that austere is austere while sour is having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.As a noun sour is
the sensation of a sour taste.As a verb sour is
(label) to make sour.austere
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Adjective
(en-adj)- The headmistress was an austere old woman.
- The interior of the church was as austere as the parishioners were dour.
Synonyms
* (grim or severe) stern, strict, forbidding * (lacking trivial decoration) simple, plain, unadorned, unembellishedAntonyms
* (not lacking trivial decoration) overwrought, flamboyant, extravagant, gaudy, flashyDerived terms
* austerity * austerelysour
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete) sowrAdjective
(er)- All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite.
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- He was a scholar / Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, / But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.
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- sour adversity
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Noun
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- (Edmund Spenser)
Derived terms
* laundry sourVerb
- So the sun's heat, with different powers, / Ripens the grape, the liquor sours .
- To sour your happiness I must report, / The queen is dead.
- (Mortimer)