Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dour"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dour \Dour\, a. [Cf. F. dur, L. durus.]
Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.
[Scot.]
A dour wife, a sour old carlin. --C. Reade.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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: {bulldog}, {dogged}, {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:
{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}, {glowering}, {glum}, {moody}, {morose},
{saturnine}, {sour}, {sullen}]
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