dour – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
dour
adj.
gloomy, serious
Dour
dour
Adjective
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"
(synonym) bulldog, dogged, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding
(similar) stubborn
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
(synonym) forbidding, grim
(similar) unpleasant
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"
(synonym) dark, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen
(similar) ill-natured
dour
příd.jm.
odměřený; nepřátelský
dour
Przym.
oschły; surowy