dour

dour

D0361600 (do͝or, dour)adj. dour·er, dour·est 1. Marked by sternness or harshness; forbidding: a dour, self-sacrificing life.2. Silently ill-humored; gloomy: the proverbially dour New England Puritan.3. Sternly obstinate; unyielding: a dour determination.

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[Middle English, possibly from Middle Irish dúr, probably from Latin dūrus, hard; see deru- in Indo-European roots.]

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dour′ly adv.dour′ness n.Usage Note: The word dour, which is etymologically related to duress and endure, traditionally rhymes with tour. The pronunciation that rhymes with sour is a standard variant that has been in use for more than a century. In our 1996 survey, 65 percent of the Usage Panel preferred the traditional pronunciation, and 33 percent preferred the variant. In our 2011 survey, opinion was almost evenly split, with 52 percent preferring the traditional pronunciation and 48 percent preferring the variant. These results suggest that the variant could overtake the traditional pronunciation in preference.

dour

(dʊə; ˈdaʊə) adj1. sullen2. hard or obstinate[C14: probably from Latin dūrus hard] ˈdourly adv ˈdourness n

dour

(dʊər, daʊ^ər, ˈdaʊ ər)

adj. 1. sullen; gloomy. 2. severe; stern. 3. Scot. (of land) barren; rocky. [1325–75; Middle English < Latin dūrus hard, severe] dour′ly, adv. dour′ness, n.

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	dour - 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"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"dogged, pertinacious, unyielding, tenacious, persistentobstinate, stubborn, unregenerate - tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
	2.	dour - 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"- J.M.Barrieforbidding, grimunpleasant - disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings ; "an unpleasant personality"; "unpleasant repercussions"; "unpleasant odors"
	3.	dour - 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"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"moody, morose, glowering, sullen, glum, saturnine, sour, darkill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition

dour

adjective gloomy, forbidding, grim, sour, dismal, dreary, sullen, unfriendly, morose a dour, taciturn man
happy, pleasant, sunny, cheerful, cheery, good-humoured, carefree, genial, chirpy (informal), jovial

dour

adjective1. Cold and forbidding:austere, bleak, grim, hard, harsh, severe, stark.2. Broodingly and sullenly unhappy:gloomy, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sulky, sullen, surly.

Translations

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