Dour

Definition: Dour

Dour

Adjective

1. 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".

2. 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.

3. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dour" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references)

Etymology: Dour \Dour\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression dur, from Latin expression durus.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Dour

Severity

Adjective: severe; strict, hard, harsh, dour, rigid, stiff, stern, rigorous, uncompromising, exacting, exigent, exigeant, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, austere, hard-headed, hard-nosed, hard-shell, relentless, Spartan, Draconian, stringent, strait-laced, searching, unsparing, iron-handed, peremptory, absolute, positive, arbitrary, imperative; coercive; tyrannical, extortionate, grinding, withering, oppressive, inquisitorial; inclement; (ruthless) a; cruel; (malevolent); haughty, arrogant; precisian.

Crosswords: Dour

� Dour Funérailles de M. Delporte (1914)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• McX: A Romance of the Dour (reference)

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Expression using "dour": dour glowering glum moody morose saturnine sour sullen. Additional references.

Beginning with "dour": dour-faced, dour-looking.

Ending with "dour": not-so-dour.

Albanian

i zymtë (black, cheerless, crepuscular, dark, depressed, dismal, drab, dreary, eerie, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, grim, heavy, leaden, macabre, mirk, mirthless, morose, mournful, muddy, murk, sad, sepulchral, somber, sombre, spleenful, stark, sulky, sullen, surly, tenebrous, winterly, wintry), i vrenjtë, i sertë (hard, hard boiled, hard-fisted, harsh, iron-bound, ornery, rigid, rigorous, rough, severe, steely, stern, stiff, wayward), i ashpër (argute, austere, biting, bluff, bluffy, Brant, bristly, brusque, churlish, coarse, crude, ding-dong, draconian, draconic, gravelly, grim, gruff, hard, harsh, ill, ill natured, inclement, keen, malevolent, pipy, raucous, rigid, rigorous, rough, rough and ready, rude, savage, scabrous, scathing, scratchy, severe, shaggy, slashing, smart, stern, strict, tough, truculent, uncharitable, unkind, unmerciful, violent, wiry). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عنيد (adamant, asinine, contrary, coriaceous, die hard, dogged, fractious, hardheaded, headstrong, heady, implacable, incorrigible, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, intractable, intransigent, inveterate, irreconcilable, mulish, nagging, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ornery, peevish, persevering, pertinacious, perverse, piggish, pigheaded, refractory, rigid, scabrous, scratchy, self willed, stiff, stiff necked, stout, stubborn, sullen, tenacious, thwart, uncompromising, unruly, unwilling, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrongheaded), ‏صارم (astringent, austere, disciplinary, driving, exact, extreme, fast, firm, hard, hard and fast, hardheaded, inclement, puritan, ramrod, rigid, rigorous, rugged, searching, severe, sharp, stark, stern, stiff, strait, strict, stringent, swingeing, tight, tough, unrelenting, violent). (various references)

Bulgarian 

суров (austere, coarse, crude, draconian, flinty, green, grim, hard, harsh, iron, iron-bound, raw, rigorous, rough, rude, rugged, severe, smart, stiff, uncharitable, uncooked, uncouth, unpitying, unseasoned), намусен (disagreeable, huffish, huffy, pouty, sulky). (various references)

Czech

zarputilý (dogged, grim, grimly determined, wrongheaded, wrong-headed), zamraèený (cloudy, gloomy, grim, lowering, nubilous, overcast, sullen), zakabonìný. (various references)

Farsi 

لجوج (Dogged, Headstrong, Intractable, Obdurate, Obstinate, Obstreperous, Pertinacious, Set, Stickler, Stubborn, Stuffy), سخت (Adjacent, Chronic, Crusty, Demanding, Difficult, Dogged, Eburnated, Exquisite, Grave, Grim, Rigid, Rigorous, Rocky, Rugged, Serious, Severe, Sore, Steely, Stratify, Stringent, Strong, Troublesome), سرسخت (Barnacle, Bullheaded, Diehard, Dogged, Headstrong, Intransigent, Inveterate, Obstinate, Recalcitrant, Refractory, Remorseless, Stark, Stubborn, Tenacious), خیره سر (Intractable, Obstinate, Pertinacious, Stubborn). (various references)

French

dur, buté, austère. (various references)

German

mürrisch (cantankerous, crabby, crotchety, crusty, fractious, glum, glumly, grumpy, liverish, morose, morosely, peevish, sulky, sullen, sullenly, surly, testy). (various references)

Greek 

κατηφήσ (dismal, joyless, low-spirited, mirthless, sad, sullen), σκυθρωπόσ (cross, glum, joyless, morose, saturnine, sulky, sullen, surly). (various references)

Hebrew 

קו�"ר (black, cheerless, dark, dun, gaunt, gloomy, gruff, morose, murky, saturnine, sepulchral, somber, sullen, tenebrous), � וקש�" (coarse, frigid, hard, hardliner, horny, inflexible, intractable, rigid, rough, severe, starchy, stiff). (various references)

Hungarian

szigorú (austere, censorious, exacting, hard and fast, harsh, inclement, meagre, poser, religious, rigid, rigorous, rugged, severe, strait, strict, stringent), savanyú (acerb, acerbic, acetous, acid, crabby, eager, frumpish, sour, tart, to wear a long face), morcos (criss-cross, cross-grained, fractious, frumpish, shirty, sullen, to be in a pet), makacs (bullet-headed, bull-headed, contrary, contumacious, cross-grained, dogged, froward, hard bitten, hard set, headstrong, hide-bound, inflexible, intractable, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ornery, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, recalcitrant, refractory, self willed, self-opinionated, self-willed, stiff, stiff necked, stubborn, stuffed shirt, tough, wrong-headed). (various references)

Indonesian

keras hati. (various references)

Italian

cupo (abyssal, cavernously, dark, deep, gloomy, hollow, morose, obscure, raucous, sulky, sullen). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� �暗 (dark-natured, glum, insular, introverted, moody, pessimistic). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ねくら (dark-natured, glum, insular, introverted, moody, pessimistic). (various references)

Manx

kione-daaney (bullet-headed, dogged, mulish, opinionated, pertinaceous, pigheaded, recalcitrant, self-opinionated, self-willed, wayward), groamagh (bad-tempered, bearish, bleak, bleak of weather, cheerless, crestfallen, dejected, depressive, disagreeable, forbidding, gloomy, glum, grim, gruff, mopish, morose, prospects, prospects), saturnine, sombre, sorry, stern, sullen, surly). (various references)

Pig Latin

ourday

Portuguese

severo (austere, bad, bitter, blue, censorious, close, closet, cornered, grim, grueling, gruelling, hard, hard-faced, hard-grained, harsh, inclement, iron-bound, joggly, keen, pointed, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rough, rugged, scathing, severe, smart, squint-eyed, stern, stiff, strait, straitlaced, strict, stringent), rígido (accomplished, frigid, ironclad, relentless, rigid, set, severe, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, unbending, uncomplying), obstinado (ambivalent, balky, contumacious, die-hard, dogged, hard-mouthed, headstrong, mulish, non-ductile, obdurate, obstinate, peevish, pertinacious, recalcitrant, refractory, self-willed, stiff-necked, stolid, stubborn, tenacious, unredeemed, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrong-headed). (various references)

Romanian

dur (callous, difficult, firm, hard, harsh, rigid, rough, roughly, stern, strict, stubborn, troublesome), sever (austere, close, drastic, exacting, firm, frowning, grim, hard, harsh, keen, narrow, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, rugged, severe, stern, Strait, strict, unrelenting), aspru (abrupt, abruptly, acid, acrimonious, biting, brisk, callous, clumsy, coarse, crisp, drastic, earthy, edgy, exacting, firm, grating, gruelling, gruff, hard, harsh, hoarse, homespun, husky, ill, inclement, iron, iron-fisted, keen, lashing, nippy, obdurate, punitive, rasping, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, robust, rough, rugged, scabrous, severe, severely, shaggy, shy, smart, snappish, stern, stiff, Strait, strict, strong, stubborn, tough, unkind, violent, wiry), încãpãţânat (awkward, contumacious, die hard, dogged, hard, headstrong, inveterate, mule, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, opinioned, pertinacious, perverse, pig-headed, refractory, royalist, self willed, stolid, stubborn, tough, unwilling, wilful). (various references)

Russian 

суровый (austere, Draconian, Draconic, hard, hard-faced, hard-grained, inclement, inhospitable, rigorous, severe). (various references)

Scottish

dùr (dull, obstinate, stubborn). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

turoban (bleak, drear, dreary, gloomy, morose, overcast), strog (austere, exacting, finical, finicking, firm, grim, rigid, severe, stern, stiff, strait, strict, stringent). (various references)

Spanish

terco (contrary, cussed, dogged, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, pigheaded, self-opinionated, stiff necked, stolid, stout, stubborn, tough), lento (deliberate, dilatory, easy, gentle, heavy, labored, laboured, lingering, pokey, poky, shuffling, slow, slow witted, sluggish), austero (astringent, austere, grim, severe, stern). (various references)

Swedish

sträng (astringent, austere, chaste, chord, grueling, gruelling, hard, harsh, inclement, intemperate, rigorous, severe, strict, string, swath, unbending, wire), envis (be obstinate, contrary, cussed, dogged, headstrong, inflexible, insistent, obstinate, ornery, persistent, pertinacious, stubborn, tenacious, tough, unrelenting, wilful, wrongheaded), enveten (contrary, cussed, dogged, headstrong, inflexible, insistent, obstinate, ornery, persistent, pertinacious, stubborn, tenacious, tough, unrelenting, wilful, wrongheaded), bister (fierce, grim, inclement, rigorous, severe, stern). (various references)

Thai

เข้มงว�" (ascetic, iron, tight), เศร้าหมอง. (various references)

Turkish

ters (acrimonious, adverse, agley, Amiss, awkward, awry, backward, backwards, bad tempered, bloody minded, churlish, contradictory, contrary, converse, counter, crabbed, cranky, curt, cussed, face down, fractious, fretful, Froward, frowning, grumpy, ill natured, illegitimate, indecorous, inimical, inverse, inversely, inverted, mis-, negative, off, opposing, opposite, perverse, retro-, reverse, snuffy, sub-, unfavorable, unfavourable, upside down, versed, wayward, wrong, wrongly), inatçı (balky, bullet-head, bull-headed, cantankerous, contrary, contumacious, cussed, die hard, difficult, dogged, fractious, hard bitten, hard-headed, hard-mouthed, hard-nosed, headstrong, heady, indocile, inflexible, insistent, intractable, mule, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, obstinate person, opinionated, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, self willed, self-opinionated, set, spiky, stern, sticker, stickler, sticky, stiff necked, strongheaded, strong-willed, stubborn, tenacious, unbending, uncompromising, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrongheaded), asık suratlı (glum, lugubrious, morose, repining, saturnine, straight-faced, sulky, surly, vinegary), aksi (adverse, awkward, bad tempered, bilious, bloody minded, cantankerous, contra, contra-, contrary, counter, crabbed, crabby, cross, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, doggish, evil, fractious, fretful, Froward, gruff, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, inverse, negatory, opposite, peevish, perverse, petulant, recalcitrant, refractory, reverse, shirty, snappish, snuffy, spleenful, spleenish, stroppy, stubborn, sullen, surly, tart, testy, unfavorable, unfavourable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, wrongheaded). (various references)

Ukrainian

суворий (arctic, astringent, austere, censorious, grueling, gruelling, hard, hard-faced, inclement, iron, rigid, rigorous, severe, stern, straitlaced, stringent, surly), понурий (blue, chap-fallen, cheerless, dogged, gloomy, morose, murky, overcast, somber, sombre). (various references)

Vietnamese 

khắc khổ khó lay chuyển. (various references)

durus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dour": doura, dourah, dourahs, douras, dourer, dourest, dourine, dourines, dourly, dourness, dournesses, douroucouli, douroucoulis. (additional references)

Words ending with "dour": ardour, candour, odour, pandour, pompadour, splendour, troubadour. (additional references)

Words containing "dour": ardours, candours, odourful, odours, pandours, pompadoured, pompadours, splendours, troubadours. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dour" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adour, daur, daux, dauz, dejur, der, deur, dior, Diur, djore, Djoua, djour, djur, Dobu, docu, doerr, dofu, Dohuk, doir, Doku, dooer, dooor, doore, doorn, dorea, doreo, dorf, dorj, dorq, D'orum, dorus, dou, doub, douc, doud, douer, douf, doug, douh, doul, doum, doun, doup, dourd, doure, douri, douros, dours, doury, dous, dout, d'outre, doux, douz, D'oyre, Drouard, drour, duar, duer, duero, Duerr, duir, duoc, duod, duoi, dupr, durf, duro, durp, durr, duru, Dvor, dwor, dwur, dyou, nour, odu, odue, odur, zour. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: duro.

-1 letter: dor, duo, oud, our, rod, udo, urd.

-2 letters: do, od, or.

+1 letter: doura, drouk, duroc, duros, gourd, odour, proud, round, sudor, uredo.

+2 letters: ardour, around, detour, devour, diuron, dolour, dorbug, dorsum, dourah, douras, dourer, dourly, douser, drogue, drouks, drouth, durion, durocs, dyvour, enduro, gourde, gourds, ground, louder, loured, maduro, odours, ordure, poured, redout, rogued, rotund, rouged, rounds, rouped, roused, routed, shroud, soured, stroud, sudors, toured, undoer, untrod, uredos, uropod.

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