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dour - Dictionary definition and meaning for dour

DOUR

(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", "a sour temper", "a sullen crowd"
synonyms : dark , glowering , glum , moody , morose , saturnine , sour , sullen
He was sullen and morose at the party and kept to himself. -added by naila_inlas
(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"
synonyms : forbidding , grim
(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", "men tenacious of opinion"
synonyms : dogged , persistent , pertinacious , tenacious , unyielding
He is too tenacious -added by vindos
Jones was the most vocal and pertinacious of all her critics. -added by naila_inlas

Mnemonics for dour

(Tag: ) "Dour" looks like "sour." A person with a sour expression is clearly feeling very dour, that is, sullen and gloomy
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(Tag: ) Dour can be pronounced as DOOR(i.e hard)->stubborn->determined
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(Tag: ) DOUR sounds like TOUR Children stubbornly(unyieldingly) asks for going on Tour
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(Tag: ) DO UR when ur parents scold u DO UR HOMEWORK,,, u feel dour,,, gloomy and sullen
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