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

Related Terms

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

Related Terms

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

Turkish pronunciation

daur

Synonyms

forbidding, harsh, severe, stern, obstinate, stubborn, unyielding, dejected, gloomy, melancholic, sullen, bleak, crabbed, dismal, dreary

Antonyms

bright, cheerful, cheery, happy

Pronunciation

/ˈdour/ /ˈdaʊr/

Etymology

[ 'du(-&)r, 'dau(-&)r ] (adjective.) 14th century. From Latin dūrus (“hard, stern”), or possibly from Middle Irish dúr.