Definition of Dour

Adjective

• 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"
  dark glowering glum moody morose saturnine sour sullen
• 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
  forbidding grim
• 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"
  dogged persistent pertinacious tenacious unyielding

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Unscramble dour

16 unscramble word found using the letters dour.

do, dor, dour, duo, duro, od, or, ord, ou, oud, our, rod, rud, udo, ur, urd,