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DOUR
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Showing a brooding ill humor
Example:
a sullen crowd
Synonyms:
dark; dour; glowering; glum; moody; morose; saturnine; sour; sullen
Classified under:
Similar:
ill-natured (having an irritable and unpleasant disposition)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
Example:
undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw
Synonyms:
dour; forbidding; grim
Classified under:
Similar:
unpleasant (offensive or disagreeable; causing discomfort or unhappiness)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Stubbornly unyielding
Example:
men tenacious of opinion
Synonyms:
dogged; dour; persistent; pertinacious; tenacious; unyielding
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
obstinate; stubborn; unregenerate (tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield)
