| dour [a] |
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| 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" |
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| Synonyms : | bulldog dogged pertinacious tenacious unyielding |
| See Also:
| stubborn |
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| 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 |
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| Synonyms : | forbidding grim |
| See Also:
| unpleasant |
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| 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" |
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| Synonyms : | dark glowering glum moody morose saturnine sour sullen |
| See Also:
| ill-natured |
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