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Dour

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Definitions for Dour

adjective
stubbornly unyielding
Synonyms
dogged persistent pertinacious tenacious unyielding
Examples
  1. dogged persistence
  2. dour determination
  3. the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics
  4. a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot
  5. men tenacious of opinion
adjective
harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
Synonyms
forbidding grim
Examples
  1. a dour, self-sacrificing life
  2. a forbidding scowl
  3. a grim man loving duty more than humanity
  4. undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie
adjective
showing a brooding ill humor
Synonyms
dark glowering glum moody morose saturnine sour sullen
Examples
  1. a dark scowl
  2. the proverbially dour New England Puritan
  3. a glum, hopeless shrug
  4. he sat in moody silence
  5. a morose and unsociable manner
  6. a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven
  7. a sour temper
  8. a sullen crowd

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