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| 1. | [ adjective ] harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance | |
| Synonyms: | grim forbidding | |
| Examples: | "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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| Related terms: | unpleasant | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] stubbornly unyielding | |
| Synonyms: | dogged tenacious pertinacious unyielding bulldog | |
| Examples: | "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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| Related terms: | stubborn | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] showing a brooding ill humor | |
| Synonyms: | sullen morose glowering moody saturnine sour glum dark | |
| Examples: | "a dark scowl" "the proverbially dour New England Puritan" "a glum, hopeless shrug" "in moody silence" "a morose and unsociable manner" "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven "a sour temper" |
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| Related terms: | ill-natured | |
| Similar spelling: |
doura dourah Dory Dorr Dori Dore Dora door doer dowry dower Dorie Doria Dorey Doerr dowery doorway |
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