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Meaning of 'dour' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Dour [ a.]
- Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.

Meaning of 'dour' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . dour [ s]
Meaning (1):
- showing a brooding ill humor
Example in sentence:
  • a dark scowl;
  • a glum, hopeless shrug;
  • a morose and unsociable manner;
  • a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius;
  • a sour temper;
  • a sullen crowd;
  • he sat in moody silence;
  • the proverbially dour New England Puritan
Meaning (2):
- harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
Example in sentence:
  • 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
Meaning (3):
- stubbornly unyielding
Example in sentence:
  • a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it;
  • dogged persistence;
  • dour determination;
  • men tenacious of opinion;
  • the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics

Nearby Words:

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