Definition of Sourer

1. Adjective. (comparative of sour) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sourer

1. sour [adj] - See also: sour

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sourer

sources
sourcework
sourcing
sourcings
sourcream
sourcrout
sourdine
sourdines
sourdough
sourdough(a)
sourdough bread
sourdoughs
soured
soured cream
soured creams
sourer (current term)
sourest
soureth
sourgum
sourgums
souring
sourings
sourish
sourkrout
sourkrouts
sourly
sourness
sournesses
sourock
sourocks

Literary usage of Sourer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A New Universal Gazetteer: Or Geographical Dictionary by Jedidiah Morse, Richard Cary Morse (1823)
"... from the sourer < the St. John to the gulf of St. Lawrence, the country has been but partially explored but lui every appearance of sterility. ..."

2. Graded Lessons in Language by Rosa Viola Winterburn (1910)
"ADJECTIVES COMPARISON One apple may be sour, another may be sourer, ... POSITIVE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE sour sourer sourest sour less sour least sour It is ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"... and Mrs. Gifford looked, as we passed her pew in order to ascend to our own, sourer and sourer. It was an unlucky circumstance, too, ..."

4. The Complete Poetical Works of James Thomson by James Thomson, James Logie Robertson (1908)
"Slow-paced and sourer as the storms increase, He makes his bed beneath the drifted snow, And, scorning the complainings of distress, Hardens his heart ..."

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