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Defenition of the word dour

    • Defenition of the word dour

      • Moody and melancholic.
      • 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"
      • 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"
      • 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
      • 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
      • showing a brooding ill humor
      • harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
      • stubbornly unyielding

    Synonyms for the word dour

      • bleak
      • bulldog
      • cheerless
      • dark
      • dismal
      • dogged
      • dreary
      • forbidding
      • gloomy
      • glowering
      • glum
      • grim
      • hard-faced
      • harsh
      • moody
      • morose
      • pertinacious
      • saturnine
      • severe
      • sour
      • stern
      • sullen
      • tenacious
      • unfriendly
      • unyielding

    Similar words in the dour

      • dour
      • dourer
      • dourest
      • dourly
      • douro
      • douro's
      • ill-natured
      • stubborn
      • unpleasant

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