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: dogged , persistent , 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 ]

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