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dour

adjective

Showing a brooding ill humor

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Word Facts

Word length
4
Starts with
D
Ends with
R
Contains
OU
Scrabble score
5

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Pronunciation

ˈdʊə

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Meaning

Definitions

adjective

  1. Showing a brooding ill humor

    “A dark scowl”

adjective

  1. Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance

    “A dour, self-sacrificing life”

adjective

  1. Stubbornly unyielding

    “Dogged persistence”

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Example Sentences

A dark scowl
The proverbially dour New England Puritan
A glum, hopeless shrug
He sat in moody silence
A morose and unsociable manner
A dour, self-sacrificing life
A forbidding scowl
A grim man loving duty more than humanity
{'source': 'J.M.Barrie', 'text': 'undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw'}
Dogged persistence
Dour determination
The most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics
{'source': 'T.S.Eliot', 'text': 'a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it'}
Men tenacious of opinion

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