'Dour' definitions:
Definition of 'dour'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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: dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding]
adjective
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: dour, forbidding, grim]
adjective
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, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen]
Definition of 'Dour'
From: GCIDE
- 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
Synonyms of 'dour'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- 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