dour
Meaning of dour
adjective
- Stern, harsh and forbidding.
- Unyielding and obstinate.
- Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy.
Information about dour
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of dour
dour
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- dour is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
dour synonyms
Meaning dogged:
dogged, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding
Meaning forbidding:
Meaning dark:
dark, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen
Meaning :
dejected, gloomy, melancholic, harsh, severe, stern, obstinate, stubborn
Translation of dour
- Italian: scontento, fosco, torvo
- French: sombre, morose, lugubre
- Spanish: apesadumbrado, apesadumbrada, lúgubre
Anagrams of dour
Words that rhyme with dour
Pompadour, pompadour, troubadour, pandour, tandour, tendour, splendour, verdour, ardour
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