Dictionary definition for: Dour
1. (s) 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"
2. (s) 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
3. (s) 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
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