| 单词 | dour |
| 释义 | dour (once / 4562 pages) adj Dour describes something sullen, gloomy, or persistent. You might look dour on your way to picking up your last check from the job you just got fired from, and people should get out of your way. Dour and endure most likely come from the Latin word durus which means "hard." If something is hard to endure for a long enough time, it can make even the most happy-go-lucky person dour. Dour sounds like sour (or closer to "do-er"). It's a tomato/tamahto word, but either way — if you're in a sour mood, you have no sense of humor, and you're dour. WORD FAMILYdour: dourer, dourest, dourly USAGE EXAMPLESSix hours of tickle therapy fails to produce a single smile from José Mourinho, dour soccer coach of Manchester United. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) We also love the dour little boy staring out from his murky portrait, undercutting all that Scottish cheer. Wall Street Journal(Nov 17, 2016) Not everyone felt entirely dour about the election results. New York Times(Nov 09, 2016) 1adj showing a brooding ill humor the proverbially dour New England Puritan Syn dark, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen ill-natured having an irritable and unpleasant disposition 2adj stubbornly unyielding dour determination Syn dogged, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield 3adj harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance a dour, self-sacrificing life Syn forbidding, grim unpleasant disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings |
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