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Definition of dour in English: douradjectiveˈdaʊəˈdʊə Relentlessly severe, stern, or gloomy in manner or appearance. a hard, dour, humourless fanatic Example sentencesExamples - But after going upstairs for a shower he would grow uncommunicative and dour.
- The second half was a dour affair with neither side looking like scoring.
- However, given the dour nature of the contest, it appeared that summer holidays were closer to the player's minds.
- He appears a dour and silent man notable only for his extreme religious convictions.
- Photographs of him make him appear dour, and he lived a monkish kind of life.
- He can come across as intensely serious about the game, even dour in the eyes of the fans, but this is as much a myth as so much in football.
- Competitors will be hoping to avoid a repeat of the dour second round when there was an unprecedented number of blanks on a chilly river.
- She said research suggested he was a ‘quiet and dour man’ and not even that good-looking.
- Steelwork was still the original somewhat dour black, and the pine-plank ceilings made the place feel dark.
- He looked like a dour, stern man and had a rather ominous air about him.
- However it made the first-half a dour affair and we saw just five scores in half-an-hour of action.
- In his dour manner, he stated that he was the foreman of the team, and called over two other men whom he introduced.
- This was a dour affair that did little to lift the hearts of the dedicated few who were in headquarters to cheer on their sides.
- It was still cold and a little gloomy but there was a dour magnificence to it.
- In a dour first half both teams were only able to score three goals, with Nimbin holding the lead by just four points.
- You must be, for the whole psychological profession, which is often very dour, very serious.
- Dire, dour and disappointing are three which spring instantly to mind.
- I hate to sign off on such a dour note but I'm afraid I'm going to have to.
- His smile no longer triggered the normal facial muscles, gradually projecting a slightly dour expression.
- It's all a bit dour, spindly trees where there are trees at all, and more than a few boarded-up stores.
Synonyms stern, unsmiling, unfriendly, frowning, poker-faced, severe, forbidding, morose, sour, gruff, surly, uncommunicative, grim, gloomy, dismal, sullen, sombre, grave, sober, serious, solemn, austere, mean-looking, stony, unsympathetic, disapproving
Derivatives adverbˈdʊəliˈdaʊəli His tinkling take on Karma Police, for instance, calls to mind Mozart's piano concertos, while Everything in Its Right Place, with its bottom-end minor notes, is dourly reminiscent of Shostakovich - and all free of Yorke's watery squall. Example sentencesExamples - Clonmel's Minella stayed on dourly through the rain-softened ground to take the Shearwater Handicap ‘Chase.
- Newton himself expressed his thoughts so dourly that students often avoided his lectures at Cambridge, and he spent his time, as one reporter put it, ‘lecturing to the walls’.
- At the furthest extreme, Schopenhauer dourly proposed that happiness was not to be expected at all.
- Cops stand stone-faced off to the side, dourly smoking their cigarettes.
nounˈdəʊnəsˈdʊənəs Nothing distracts from the swell and shimmer of the sleek blue surface that slinks enticingly through the gloom and dourness of the city. Example sentencesExamples - Deconstructive dourness never stays put, however, so of course the deconstructive acid seeped over from museum practices to high art itself.
- Brady's carefully-cultivated air of dismissive dourness offset Giles' sombre demeanour perfectly, as it usually does.
- The brooding dourness of the scene hasn't just disregarded dancing, though, as many of the major players in the game focus on abstraction to the extent that visceral reaction of any sort is out of the question.
- Combining dourness and humour, sentimentality and hard-headedness, arrogance and tolerance, every situation is redeemed by laughter.
Origin Late Middle English (originally Scots): probably from Scottish Gaelic dúr 'dull, obstinate, stupid', perhaps from Latin durus 'hard'. This word meaning ‘relentlessly severe’ was originally Scots. It is probably from Scottish Gaelic dúr ‘dull, obstinate, stupid’, perhaps from Latin durus ‘hard’.
Rhymes abjure, adjure, allure, amour, assure, Bahawalpur, boor, Borobudur, Cavour, coiffure, conjure, couture, cure, dastur, de nos jours, doublure, embouchure, endure, ensure, enure, gravure, immature, immure, impure, inure, Jaipur, Koh-i-noor, Kultur, liqueur, lure, manure, moor, Moore, Muir, mure, Nagpur, Namur, obscure, parkour, photogravure, plat du jour, Pompadour, procure, pure, rotogravure, Ruhr, Saussure, secure, simon-pure, spoor, Stour, sure, tour, Tours, velour, Yom Kippur, you're Definition of dour in US English: douradjective Relentlessly severe, stern, or gloomy in manner or appearance. a hard, dour, humorless fanatic Example sentencesExamples - Steelwork was still the original somewhat dour black, and the pine-plank ceilings made the place feel dark.
- She said research suggested he was a ‘quiet and dour man’ and not even that good-looking.
- It's all a bit dour, spindly trees where there are trees at all, and more than a few boarded-up stores.
- In his dour manner, he stated that he was the foreman of the team, and called over two other men whom he introduced.
- He can come across as intensely serious about the game, even dour in the eyes of the fans, but this is as much a myth as so much in football.
- Dire, dour and disappointing are three which spring instantly to mind.
- He looked like a dour, stern man and had a rather ominous air about him.
- Competitors will be hoping to avoid a repeat of the dour second round when there was an unprecedented number of blanks on a chilly river.
- You must be, for the whole psychological profession, which is often very dour, very serious.
- But after going upstairs for a shower he would grow uncommunicative and dour.
- This was a dour affair that did little to lift the hearts of the dedicated few who were in headquarters to cheer on their sides.
- His smile no longer triggered the normal facial muscles, gradually projecting a slightly dour expression.
- The second half was a dour affair with neither side looking like scoring.
- He appears a dour and silent man notable only for his extreme religious convictions.
- Photographs of him make him appear dour, and he lived a monkish kind of life.
- However it made the first-half a dour affair and we saw just five scores in half-an-hour of action.
- It was still cold and a little gloomy but there was a dour magnificence to it.
- In a dour first half both teams were only able to score three goals, with Nimbin holding the lead by just four points.
- However, given the dour nature of the contest, it appeared that summer holidays were closer to the player's minds.
- I hate to sign off on such a dour note but I'm afraid I'm going to have to.
Synonyms stern, unsmiling, unfriendly, frowning, poker-faced, severe, forbidding, morose, sour, gruff, surly, uncommunicative, grim, gloomy, dismal, sullen, sombre, grave, sober, serious, solemn, austere, mean-looking, stony, unsympathetic, disapproving
Origin Late Middle English (originally Scots): probably from Scottish Gaelic dúr ‘dull, obstinate, stupid’, perhaps from Latin durus ‘hard’. |