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Dour
see synonyms of dourAdjective
1. dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding
stubbornly unyielding
Example Sentences:'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''men tenacious of opinion'
2. dour, forbidding, grim
harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
Example Sentences:'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'
3. dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen
showing a brooding ill humor
Example Sentences:'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''a sour temper''a sullen crowd'
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
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Dour
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