dour - Meaning in Hindi

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dour - Meaning in Hindi

dour Word Forms & Inflections

Definitions and Meaning of dour in English

dour adjective

1. showing a brooding ill humor

   Synonyms

   dark, glowering, glum, moody, moody, morose, saturnine, saturnine, sour, sour, sullen

   Examples

   • "a dark scowl"
   • "a glum, hopeless shrug"
   • "a morose and unsociable manner"
   • "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"
   • "a sour temper"
   • "a sullen crowd"
   • "he sat in moody silence"
   • "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"
2. harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance

   Synonyms

   forbidding, grim, grim

   Examples

   • "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"
3. stubbornly unyielding

   Synonyms

   dogged, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding

   Examples

   • "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"
   • "dogged persistence"
   • "dour determination"
   • "men tenacious of opinion"
   • "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"

Synonyms of dour

• dark, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen
• forbidding, grim
• dogged, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding

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