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Meaning of खट्टा in English

  • Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh.
  • Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour.
  • A substance liable to become sour.
  • Of a pertaining to vinegar; producing vinegar; producing vinegar; as, acetic fermentation.
  • Pertaining to, containing, or derived from, acetyl, as acetic ether, acetic acid. The latter is the acid to which the sour taste of vinegar is due.
  • Having a sour taste; sour; acid.
  • Causing, or connected with, acetification; as, acetous fermentation.
  • Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous.
  • Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.
  • Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned.
  • Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply.
  • Afflictive; painful.
  • Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh.
  • A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
  • To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances.
  • To make cold and unproductive, as soil.
  • To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable.
  • To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly.
  • To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes.
  • To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity.

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