dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen
(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”
dour, forbidding, grim
(adjective) 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
dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding
(adjective) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
dour (comparative dourer or more dour, superlative dourest or most dour)
Stern, harsh and forbidding.
Unyielding and obstinate.
Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy.
• (stern, harsh): forbidding, harsh, severe, stern
• (unyielding): obstinate, stubborn, unyielding
• (expressing gloom): dejected, gloomy, melancholic, sullen
• doru, ordu
Source: Wiktionary
Dour, a. Etym: [Cf. F. dur, L. durus.]
Definition: Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold. [Scot.] A dour wife, a sour old carlin. C. Reade.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
