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dour
adjective
showing a brooding ill humor
Quick reference
Word Facts
- Word length
- 4
- Starts with
- D
- Ends with
- R
- Contains
- OU
- Scrabble score
- 5
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
How it sounds
Pronunciation
ˈdʊə
Meaning
Definitions
adjective
showing a brooding ill humor
“a dark scowl”
adjective
harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
“a dour, self-sacrificing life”
adjective
stubbornly unyielding
“dogged persistence”
In context
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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