About The Word Dour
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Dour
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What's The Definition Of Dour?
[adj] showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
[adj] harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "a dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie [adj] stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion" Synonyms | Synonyms for Dour: bulldog | dark | dogged | forbidding | glowering | glum | grim | ill-natured | moody | morose | pertinacious | saturnine | sour | stubborn | sullen | tenacious | unpleasant | unyielding Related Terms | Find terms related to Dour: adamant | adamantine | astringent | austere | authoritarian | beetle-browed | black | black-browed | bleak | cast-iron | cheerless | cold | crabbed | dark | dejected | demanding | dismal | dreary | dumpish | exacting | exigent | firm | flinty | forbidding | frowning | fundamentalist | gloomy | glowering | glum | grim | grum | hard | hard-core | hard-nosed | hardy | harsh | hidebound | immovable | immutable | implacable | impliable | inclement | inelastic | inexorable | inflexible | intransigent | iron | ironbound | ironclad | ironhanded | irreconcilable | lowering | melancholy | meticulous | moodish | moody | mopey | moping | mopish | morose | mumpish | muscle-bound | obdurate | obstinate | orthodox | procrustean | purist | puristic | puritan | puritanic | relentless | rigid | rigorist | rigoristic | rigorous | rockbound | rock-ribbed | rough | rugged | saturnine | scowling | severe | sour | Spartan | Spartanic | steely | stern | stiff | straightlaced | straitlaced | strict | stringent | stubborn | sulky | sullen | surly | tough | ugly | unaffected | unalterable | unbending | unchangeable | uncompromising | unfriendly | ungentle | ungiving | unmoved | unrelenting | unsparing | unyielding See Also | Dour In Webster's Dictionary \Dour\, a. [Cf. F. dur, L. durus.]
Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.
[Scot.]
A dour wife, a sour old carlin. --C. Reade.
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