Meaning & Definition of Dour in English

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"

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

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"