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dour
adjective
(dour)
harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
Synonyms:
forbidding
,
grim
,
Examples:
A dour, self-sacrificing life.
dour
adjective
(dour)
stubbornly unyielding
Synonyms:
dogged
,
persistent
,
pertinacious
,
tenacious
,
unyielding
,
Examples:
Dour determination.
dour
adjective
(dour)
showing a brooding ill humor
Synonyms:
dark
,
glowering
,
glum
,
moody
,
morose
,
saturnine
,
sour
,
sullen
,
Examples:
The proverbially dour New England Puritan.
Words Related to
dour
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glum
,
morose
,
grim
,
sullen
,
saturnine
,
moody
,
stubborn
,
sour
,
glowering
,
unpleasant
,
unyielding
,
tenacious
,
dark
,
dogged
,
pertinacious
,
bulldog
,
forbidding
,
ill-natured
,
gloomy
,
downbeat
,
dreary
,
bleak
,
cheery
,
dull
,
upbeat
,
uninspiring
,
humorless
,
drab
,
downcast
,
lackluster
,
cheerless
,
sombre
,
taciturn
,
dismal
,
turgid
,
phlegmatic
,
stolid
,
listless
,
rosy
,
passionless
,
lugubrious
,
tepid
,
stoic
,
insipid
,
amiable
,
joyless
,
diffident
,
depressing
,
pugnacious
,
hangdog
,
cheerful
,
sombrous
,
stodgy
,
dispiriting
,
grumpy
,
mumpish
,
forlorn
,
pessimistic
,
somber
,
laconic
,
desultory
,
unsmiling
,
rueful
,
bland
,
dyspeptic
,
stoical
,
tetchy
,
genial
,
dourest
,
spiritless
,
ebullient
,
dreich
,
nervy
,
mordant
,
waspish
,
scrappy
,
torvous
,
feisty
,
ponderous
,
unconvincing
,
staid
,
doleful
,
pallid
,
workmanlike
,
jovial
,
schoolmasterly
,
flinty
,
unrevealing
,
unadventurous
,
surly
,
owlish
,
cantankerous
,
unexciting
,
dispassionate
,
subdued
,
obdurate
,
chipper
,
torved
,
unexcitable
,
dullish
,
dour
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