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1. : stern, harsh. a dour expression on her face. 2. : obstinate, unyielding. an insistent hunger for learning and a dour … determination to achieve it Walter Moberly. 3. : gloomy, sullen. a dour disposition.
DOUR definition: 1. (usually of a person's appearance or manner) unfriendly, unhappy, and very serious: 2. (usually…. Learn more.
Dour describes something sullen, gloomy, or persistent. You might look dour on your way to picking up your last check from the job you just got fired from, and people should get out of your way.
adjective. sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all. Synonyms: moody, sour, morose. severe; stern: His dour criticism made us regret having undertaken the job. Scot. (of land) barren; rocky, infertile, or otherwise difficult or impossible to cultivate. dour. / ˈdaʊə; dʊə /.
1. Marked by sternness or harshness; forbidding: a dour, self-sacrificing life. 2. Silently ill-humored; gloomy: the proverbially dour New England Puritan. 3. Sternly obstinate; unyielding: a dour determination. [Middle English, possibly from Middle Irish dúr, probably from Latin dūrus, hard; see deru- in Indo-European roots .] dour′ly adv.
If you describe someone as dour, you mean that they are very serious and unfriendly.
Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy. Wiktionary. Synonyms: unyielding. tenacious. pertinacious. persistent. dogged. grim. forbidding. glowering. saturnine. sour.
(of a thing, a place, or a situation) not pleasant; with no features that make it lively or interesting. The city, drab and dour by day, is transformed at night. The game proved to be a dour struggle, with both men determined to win. Word Origin. See dour in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Check pronunciation: dour.
dour meaning, definition, what is dour: serious, never smiling, and unfriendly: Learn more.
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