A Topical Dictionary: Search for dour

Dictionary Results For "dour" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Pronunciation

; traditional pronunciation

IPA: ˈduːɚ
Homophones: doer

; alternative pronunciation

IPA: ˈdaʊɚ
Homophones: dower

Adjective

Derived terms

Translations

Dutch:

Russian: {{t|ru|строгий|tr=strógij|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t+|ru|суровый|tr=suróvyj|sc=Cyrl}}

Dutch: stuurs

Russian: {{t+|ru|мрачный|tr=mráčnyj|sc=Cyrl}}

Dutch: onverbiddelijk

Russian: {{t|ru|непреклонный|tr=n'epr'eklónnyj|sc=Cyrl}}

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Breton

Noun

dour

water

Category:Breton nouns

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Dour \Dour\, a. [Cf. F. dur, L. durus.]
Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.
[Scot.]
[1913 Webster]

A dour wife, a sour old carlin. --C. Reade.
[1913 Webster] Doura

WordNet dour
adj 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" [syn: bulldog, dogged, pertinacious,
tenacious, unyielding]
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 [syn:
forbidding, grim]
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" [syn: dark, glowering, glum, moody, morose,
saturnine, sour, sullen]

Moby Dictionary
Spartan , Spartanic , adamant , adamantine , astringent , austere ,
authoritarian , beetle-browed , black , black-browed , bleak ,
cast-iron , cheerless , cold , crabbed , dark , dejected , demanding ,
dismal , dreary , dumpish , exacting , exigent , firm , flinty ,
forbidding , frowning , fundamentalist , gloomy , glowering , glum ,
grim , grum , hard , hard-core , hard-nosed , hardy , harsh , hidebound ,
immovable , immutable , implacable , impliable , inclement , inelastic ,
inexorable , inflexible , intransigent , iron , ironbound , ironclad ,
ironhanded , irreconcilable , lowering , melancholy , meticulous ,
moodish , moody , mopey , moping , mopish , morose , mumpish ,
muscle-bound , obdurate , obstinate , orthodox , procrustean , purist ,
puristic , puritan , puritanic , relentless , rigid , rigorist ,
rigoristic , rigorous , rock-ribbed , rockbound , rough , rugged ,
saturnine , scowling , severe , sour , steely , stern , stiff ,
straightlaced , straitlaced , strict , stringent , stubborn , sulky ,
sullen , surly , tough , ugly , unaffected , unalterable , unbending ,
unchangeable , uncompromising , unfriendly , ungentle , ungiving ,
unmoved , unrelenting , unsparing , unyielding