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[ door, douuhr, dou-er ] / dʊər, daʊər, ˈdaʊ ər / SEE SYNONYMS FOR dour ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivesullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all. severe; stern: His dour criticism made us regret having undertaken the job. Scot. (of land) barren; rocky, infertile, or otherwise difficult or impossible to cultivate. Origin of dour1325–75; Middle English, from Latin dūrus dure1 SYNONYMS FOR dourSEE SYNONYMS FOR dour ON THESAURUS.COM synonym study for dour1. See glum. OTHER WORDS FROM dourdourly, adverbdourness, nounWords nearby dourdoun, Dounreay, Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, doup, douppioni, dour, doura, dourine, Douro, douroucouli, douse Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for dourThis decline, not surprisingly, has engendered a dour mood among much of the yeomanry. In the Future We'll All Be Renters: America's Disappearing Middle Class|Joel Kotkin|August 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST And so the Libyan revolution was intoxicating, which is why the world watched it much more closely than the dour Syrian struggle. It’s Not the USA that Made Libya the Disaster it is Today|Ann Marlowe|August 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST Queen Victoria had the reputation of being a humorless, dour battleaxe, a Terminator in bombazine. The Cult of Royal Porn|Tim Teeman|April 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST Then McQueen, who can come across as quite intense and dour, magnificently, jumped up and down. The Changing Color of the Oscars: '12 Years A Slave' Makes History|Tim Teeman|March 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The exuberant, indefatigable Democrat from Oregon and the dour, taciturn Republican from New Hampshire made an odd couple. The Senate’s New Taxman Won’t Be Controlled By His Own Party|Linda Killian|February 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST Wat Gordon shook his head with a certain unconvinced and dour determination. He ransacked the train forward in vain, and returned, passing Marjorie with a shake of the head and a dour countenance. Dour, drug, dull—The state of the ice when the- 25 - stone cannot easily be thrown the length of the rink. The Canadian Curler's Manual|James Bicket The others brought forth tobacco and squatted or sat near the dour Jamaican. Border, Breed Nor Birth|Dallas McCord Reynolds You were always considered something like me—dark and dour when you liked, but sunshiny when you liked also. Girls of the Forest|L. T. Meade
British Dictionary definitions for dourDerived forms of dourdourly, adverbdourness, nounWord Origin for dourC14: probably from Latin dūrus hard Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to doursullen, morose, harsh, glum, surly, bleak, dismal, dreary, forbidding, hard, saturnine, severe, sour, stringent, sulky, ugly, unfriendly, crabbed |