Adjective: dour (dourer,dourest) daw(-u)r or dûr
- Showing a brooding ill humour
"the proverbially dour New England Puritan";
- dark, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen
- Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
"a dour, self-sacrificing life";
- forbidding, grim
- Stubbornly persisting, refusing to give up
"dour determination";
- dogged, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding
Derived forms: dourer, dourest
See also: ill-natured, obstinate, stubborn, unpleasant, unregenerate
Encyclopedia: Dour, Belgium