Dour word meaning and definition

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Meaning and definition for "dour" word

[adjective] showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially 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"
[adjective] 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
[adjective] 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"

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\Dour\, a. [Cf. F. dur, L. durus.] Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold. [Scot.] A dour wife, a sour old carlin. --C. Reade.

Synonyms for dour

bulldog, dark, dogged, forbidding, glowering, glum, grim, ill-natured, moody, morose, pertinacious, saturnine, sour, stubborn, sullen, tenacious, unpleasant, unyielding

Related terms: cheerless, dark, dismal, dumpish, hardy, harsh, inclement, inelastic, mopey, moping, mumpish, rock-ribbed, rockbound, saturnine, severe, sour, Spartan, straitlaced, stringent, stubborn, tough, unfriendly

The fun area, different aproach to word »dour«

Let's analyse "dour" as pure text. This string has Four letters in One syllable and Two vowels. 50% of vowels is 11.4% more then average English word. Written in backwards: RUOD. Average typing speed for these characters is 1045 milliseconds. [info]

Morse code: -.. --- ..- .-.

Numerology

Hearts desire number calculated from vowels: dour: 6 + 3 = 9, reduced: 9 . and the final result is Nine.
Destiny number calculated from all letters: dour: 4 + 6 + 3 + 9 = 22, reduced: 22, and the final result is Twenty-Two.

Tarot cards

Letter	Num.	Tarot c.	Meaning
D (1)	4	Emperor	Determined, Persistant, Idealist
O (1)	15	Devil	Optimist, Gamesman, Marketer, Hunter
R (1)	18	Moon	Patient, Determined, Strong
U (1)	21	World	Gifted, Generous, Bountiful

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