Define the word dour"Dour" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Dour \Dour\, a. [Cf. F. dur, L. durus.]
Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.
[Scot.]
[1913 Webster]
A dour wife, a sour old carlin. --C. Reade.
[1913 Webster] Doura
"dour" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
dour
adj 1: 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" [syn: bulldog, dogged, pertinacious,
tenacious, unyielding]
2: 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 [syn:
forbidding, grim]
3: 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" [syn: dark, glowering, glum, moody, morose,
saturnine, sour, sullen]
"dour" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
110 Moby Thesaurus words for "dour":
Spartan, Spartanic, 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, rock-ribbed, rockbound, rough, rugged,
saturnine, scowling, severe, sour, 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
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