ADJECTIVE | all | dour, dogged, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding | stubbornly unyielding |
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all | dour, forbidding, grim | harshly uninviting / uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance | |
all | dour, dark, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen | showing a brooding ill humor |
Sounds | daw'er; daw'r | |
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Rhymes | bellflower ... willpower: 32 rhymes with awer... | |
Adenauer ... sour: 9 rhymes with awr... |
Meaning | stubbornly unyielding. | |
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Example | "dour determination" | |
Synonyms | dogged, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding | |
Broader | stubborn, obstinate, unregenerate | tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield |
Spanish | inflexible, pertinaz, porfiado, tenaz | |
Catalan | inflexible, pertinaç, porfidiós, tenaç |
Meaning | harshly uninviting / uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance. | |
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Example | "a dour, self-sacrificing life" | |
Synonyms | forbidding, grim | |
Broader | unpleasant | Disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings |
Spanish | adusto, austero, duro, severo | |
Catalan | adust, auster, dur, sever |
Meaning | showing a brooding ill humor. | |
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Example | "the proverbially dour New England Puritan" | |
Synonyms | dark, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen | |
Broader | ill-natured | Having an irritable and unpleasant disposition |
Spanish | adusto, agrio, austero, desabrido, hosco, lúgubre, malhumorado, retraïdo, saturnino, sombrío, taciturno | |
Catalan | adust, agre, auster, esquerp, lúgubre, retret, sorrut, taciturn | |
Adverbs | dourly | in a sullen manner |
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