German - English
Definition of ernst und verbissen in German English dictionary
- dour
- Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy
- Stern, harsh and forbidding
- 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
- unyielding and obstinate
- 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