dour as an adjective: - 1
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dour
adjective
1 dour
Stubbornly unyielding:
— Dour determination.
synonyms: dogged, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding.
Roget 739:
severe;
strict,
hard,
harsh,
dour,
rigid,
stiff,
stern,
rigorous,
uncompromising,
exacting,
exigent,
exigeant†,
inexorable,
inflexible,
obdurate,
austere,
hard-headed,
hard-nosed,
hard-shell [U.S.],
relentless,
Spartan,
Draconian,
stringent,
strait-laced,
searching,
unsparing,
iron-handed,
peremptory,
absolute,
positive,
arbitrary,
imperative;
coercive
etc.
744;
tyrannical,
extortionate,
grinding,
withering,
oppressive,
inquisitorial;
inclement
etc.
(ruthless)
914.1;
cruel
etc.
(malevolent)
907;
haughty,
arrogant
etc.
885;
precisian†.
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Polish: wytrwały
2 dour
Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance:
— A dour, self-sacrificing life.
synonyms: forbidding, grim.
3 dour
Moby thesaurus: Spartan, Spartanic, adamant, adamantine, astringent, austere, authoritarian, beetle-browed, black, black-browed, bleak, cast-iron, cheerless, cold, crabbed, dark, dejected, demanding, dismal, dreary, dumpish, exacting, exigent, firm, flinty, forbidding, frowning, fundamentalist, gloomy, glowering, glum, grim, grum, hard, hard-core, hard-nosed, hardy, harsh, hidebound, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable, inclement, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, intransigent, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, irreconcilable, lowering, melancholy, meticulous, moodish, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, mumpish, muscle-bound, obdurate, obstinate, orthodox, procrustean, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, relentless, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rock-ribbed, rockbound, rough, rugged, saturnine, scowling, severe, sour, steely, stern, stiff, straightlaced, straitlaced, strict, stringent, stubborn, sulky, sullen, surly, tough, ugly, unaffected, unalterable, unbending, unchangeable, uncompromising, unfriendly, ungentle, ungiving, unmoved, unrelenting, unsparing, unyielding ... show more.
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