Found 3 items, similar to dour.
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: dour
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]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Dour
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.
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