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Dour Definition And Meaning
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.

Dour Definition And Meaning

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"

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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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