Dour

Quick meaning: Dour is an adjective meaning Stern, harsh and forbidding.

Meaning

Stern, harsh and forbidding.

More Meanings

1. Unyielding and obstinate.
2. Expressing gloom or melancholy.
3. Alternative form of daur.

Example Sentences

The detachment that went out the day before yesterday on a dour have not returned: the party consisted of 200 Highlanders and 100 Sikhs, also twenty horsemen.

The principal reason is that, in competition with modern road vehicles running over motorways, B.R. has a dour struggle to match the performance of its rivals cost-wise.

Tuchel arrived in Belgrade insisting England were ready to improve and show their quality after the dour victories that have characterised their World Cup qualification campaign.

Hayek had contributed the foreword, in which he declared that “he got so fascinated” by the book—high praise from the dour Viennese sage—that he read it from start to finish in one sitting.

Word Forms

• dourer
• dourest
• dours

Synonyms for dour

Depending on context, synonyms include forbidding, harsh, severe, stern, stubborn, dejected.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include grim, morose, moody, glum, saturnine, sullen.

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