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Definitions for Dour

[1] sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
[2] severe; stern: His dour criticism made us regret having undertaken the job.
[3] Scot. (of land) barren; rocky, infertile, or otherwise difficult or impossible to cultivate.
[4] sullen
[5] hard or obstinate

Words related to Dour

sullen, morose, harsh, glum, surly, bleak, dismal, dreary, forbidding, hard, saturnine, severe, sour, stringent, sulky, ugly, unfriendly, crabbed

Words nearby Dour

doumergue, doun, dounreay, doup, douppioni, dour, doura, dourine, douro, douroucouli, douse

Origin of Dour

1325–75; Middle English < Latin dūrus dure1

Other words from Dour

dour·ly , adverb
dour·ness , noun

Word origin for Dour

C14: probably from Latin dūrus hard

Synonyms for Dour

bleak, glum, harsh, morose, sullen, surly, crabbed, dismal, dreary, forbidding, hard, saturnine, severe, sour, stringent, sulky, ugly, unfriendly