Dour can be categorized as an adjective.
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| dour - 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 | ||
| dour - 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" | ||
| dour - 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" |
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| 1. | adj. | A dour, self-sacrificing life. | |
| 2. | adj. | Dour determination. | |
| 3. | adj. | The proverbially dour New England Puritan. | |
| 4. | adj. | She gave us a dour look when we suggested that she apologize. |
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| A dour, self-sacrificing life. |
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| Dour determination. |
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| The proverbially dour New England Puritan. |
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| She gave us a dour look when we suggested that she apologize. | |