Dour

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Marked by sternness or harshness; forbidding: a dour, self-sacrificing life.
  • adj. Silently ill-humored; gloomy: the proverbially dour New England Puritan.
  • adj. Sternly obstinate; unyielding: a dour determination.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Stern, harsh and forbidding.
  • adj. Unyielding and obstinate.
  • adj. Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Hard; inflexible; obstinate; bold; hardy.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. showing a brooding ill humor
  • adj. harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
  • adj. stubbornly unyielding
    • Equivalent
    ill-natured    unpleasant    obstinate    unregenerate    stubborn   
    Form
    dourness    dourly   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    hard    inflexible    obstinate    hardy    bold    forbidding    stern    severe    harsh    stubborn   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Auer    Bower    Gower    Power    bour    bower    cower    dauer    devour    dower   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    somber    surly    glum    morose    impassive    stolid    grim    austere    dejected    disapprove   
     
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