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What is the adjective for sourness?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb sour which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

sour
  1. Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
  2. Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
  3. Tasting or smelling rancid.
  4. Peevish or bad-tempered.
  5. (of soil) Excessively acidic and thus infertile.
  6. (of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur.
  7. Unfortunate or unfavorable.
  8. (music) Off-pitch, out of tune.
  9. Synonyms:
  10. Examples:
    1. “The unripe fruit has a harsh sour taste, and yields by expression a very acid liquor, called verjuice.”
      “I found myself to be generally in a sour mood in the morning, a state unfamiliar to me since I am a morning person by nature.”
      “Tanner pointed at my clothes which had a big white stain on them and smelled of sour milk.”
soured
sourish
  1. Somewhat sour.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The sourish fruit concoction is usually eaten with rice and makes an appetising salad.”
      “She mentioned that she remembered eating the sourish fruit, an orange olive-shaped drupe, as a child.”
      “You can substitute the redcurrants with some other sourish fruits available.”
sourfaced
  1. Having a sour face.
sourest
  1. superlative form of sour: most sour
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Even if Nichols cheats a bit about a few details, he makes his main characters tragicomically true to life, racily human enough to wrest sympathy from the sourest souls.”
      “They seek to suppress and destroy religions, and strictly prevent all foreign sourest of news from coming in.”
      “The Hatem Ben Arfa saga has ended as most of us feared, with his time on Tyneside ending on the sourest of notes.”
souring
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