dour

English - Turkish

Definition of dour in English Turkish dictionary: soğuk; suratsız; sert; {s} inatçı; {s} asık suratlı; {s} aksi; {s} ters; {s} asık yüzlü, ters, haşin, aksi; asık yüzlu
dourness: {i} inatçılık
dourness: {i} aksilik

English - English

Definition of dour in English English dictionary: Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy; Stern, harsh and forbidding; Unyielding and obstinate; showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the (Atasözü)ially 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"; If you describe someone as dour, you mean that they are very serious and unfriendly. a dour, taciturn man + dourly dour·ly disapproval The old man stared dourly at them; 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; 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"; gloomy and sullenly unhappy; {s} gloomy, serious; Barrie; Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold
dourness: The characteristic of being dour; gloominess; sternness
dourer: More dour; stern, harsh, gloomy
dourest: superlative of dour
dourly: in a sullen manner; "he sat in his chair dourly
dourly: in a sullen manner; "he sat in his chair dourly"
dourly: gloomily, in a serious manner
dourly: In a dour manner
dourness: {i} gloominess; fierceness