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dour::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | forbidding, grim |
a dour, self-sacrificing life.
Examples of dour
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A lot of positive-vibe stories today from your usually dour mob of beat writers.
From the newsday.com
Evenings had had more than a hint of autumnal sharpness and moods had been dour.
From the guardian.co.uk
There's a dour comedy in this constant mismatch between imagination and reality.
From the guardian.co.uk
They have read all the dour headlines and watched smart young people leave town.
From the stltoday.com
He seems to have been the center of gravity, the dour and meticulous ringleader.
From the time.com
Murray, a dour guy by nature, was far from ebullient in his post-match comments.
From the keepingscore.blogs.time.com
We tried to engage the efficient but somewhat dour waiter, with little success.
From the sfgate.com
Her models provided the dour room with a bracing jolt of color and electricity.
From the washingtonpost.com
The first half was a dour, highly contested affair slogged out in wet conditions.
From the starnewsgroup.com.au
- Dogged: 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"
- 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.Barrie
- Dark: 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"
- Dour is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 16,810 inhabitants. The total area is 33.32 kmu00B2, giving a population density of 505 inhabitants per kmu00B2.
- 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 kmu00B2 (0.386 squ00A0mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
- Stern, harsh and forbidding; Unyielding and obstinate; Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy
- (dourness) The characteristic of being dour; gloominess; sternness
- (adj.) sullen, gloomy
