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dour definition
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Grep of noun dour ardour body odour candour doura dourah douroucouli malodour marquise de pompdour odour pompadour splendour troubadour Overview of adj dour The adj dour has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. bulldog, dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding -- (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. dour, forbidding, grim -- (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. dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen -- (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") Antonyms of adj dour 3 senses of dour Sense 1 bulldog, dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding INDIRECT (VIA stubborn) -> docile Sense 2 dour, forbidding, grim INDIRECT (VIA unpleasant) -> pleasant Sense 3 dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen INDIRECT (VIA ill-natured) -> good-natured Similarity of adj dour 3 senses of dour Sense 1 bulldog, dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding => stubborn (vs. docile) Sense 2 dour, forbidding, grim => unpleasant (vs. pleasant) Sense 3 dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen => ill-natured (vs. good-natured) Attributes of adj dour Familiarity of adj dour dour used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count = 3) Grep of adj dour dour Overview of adj dour The adj dour has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. bulldog, dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding -- (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. dour, forbidding, grim -- (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. dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen -- (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 definition
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