How to pronounce dour in English
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Dour in sign language
List of meaning for dour
forbidding and stern
dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding(adj)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"
dour, forbidding, grim(adj)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
dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen(adj)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"
harsh and threatening in manner or appearancea dour prison guard who didn't look like he'd be very understanding
List of Synonyms for dour
- saturnine
- relentless
- sullen
- grim
- long
- sour
- morose
- haunting
- retentive
- dark
- unyielding
- moody
- tenacious
- recollective
- coherent
- lasting
- pertinacious
- dogged
- glowering
- forbidding
- unrelenting
- glum
- persistent
- down(p)
- dispirited
- ominous
- baleful
- disconsolate
- threatening
- black
- grisly
- drear
- minatory
- low
- down in the mouth
- stern
- blue
- unappeasable
- gruesome
- sinister
- macabre
- downhearted
- mordant
- drab
- downcast
- menacing
- low spirited
- unforgiving
- sick
- gloomy
- ghastly
- depressed
- sorry
- dingy
- inexorable
- dreary
- dismal
- minacious
- heavy
- non white
- temperamental
- coloured
- dark skinned
- benighted
- off
- obscure
- turned
- off key
- false
- lowering
- rancid
- stubborn
- obstinate
- dejected
- melancholic
- severe
- harsh
- austere
- fierce
- flinty
- gruff
- intimidating
- louring
- rough
- rugged
- stark
- steely
- ungentle
Translation found for dour in different languages
- عنيدArabic
- намусен строг суров мрачен Bulgarian
- herb German
- severa aǔstera Esperanto
- austero riguroso taciturno rigorista inflexible severo obstinado rígido terco melancólico duro despiadado lúgubre Spanish
- tyly Finnish
- austère rigoureux lugubre morose sévère obstiné taciturne rigide entêté têtu mélancolique dur rigoriste inflexible French
- cupo Italian
- stuurs afschrikwekkend onverbiddelijk Dutch
- srogi ponury Polish
- мрачный строгий непреклонный суровый Russian
dour in Sentence
1. Because the coach was disappointed in his team’s behavior, he wore a dour expression when he gave his post-game speech.
2. When Matt looked at his mother’s dour face, he knew he was in trouble for staying out late.
3. Even the dour old woman could not resist a grin when she saw the beautiful newborn baby.
4. Mrs. Smith is a dour teacher who seems to enjoy making children stand in the corner.
5. As a teacher, I often have to look dour so my students will take me seriously when I give them instructions.
Words Related to dour
- doune
- doung
- dounreay
- doup
- doupe
- doura
- doura.
- dourados
- dourah
- doure
- bleak
- cold
- hostile
- inhospitable
- inimical
- unfriendly
- unsympathetic
- adamant
- bound
- determined
- firm
- intent
- purposeful
- resolute
- resolved
- steadfast
- unflinching
- fixed
- hard
- hardened
- hardheaded
- immovable
- implacable
- inflexible
- ironhanded
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- rigid
- self willed
- set
- stiff
- stubborn
- unbending
- uncompromising
- unrelenting
- unyielding
- willful
- wilful
- immutable
- unchangeable
- black
- cheerless
- dark
- gloomy
- glum
- joyless
- melancholic
- moody
- morose
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- brooding
- grave
- humorless
- melancholy
- serious
- sober
- sobersided
- solemn
- somber
- sombre
- staid
- unsmiling
- weighty
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