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Meaning of dour

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  dour
      adj 1: 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" [syn: {dogged}, {dour}, {persistent},
             {pertinacious}, {tenacious}, {unyielding}]
      2: 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 [syn:
         {dour}, {forbidding}, {grim}]
      3: 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" [syn: {dark},
         {dour}, {glowering}, {glum}, {moody}, {morose}, {saturnine},
         {sour}, {sullen}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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