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[ adjective ] harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance

Synonyms

grim forbidding

Examples

"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

Related terms

unpleasant

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[ adjective ] stubbornly unyielding

Examples

"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"

Related terms

stubborn

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[ adjective ] showing a brooding ill humor

Examples

"a dark scowl" "the proverbially dour New England Puritan" "a glum, hopeless shrug" "in moody silence" "a morose and unsociable manner" "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven "a sour temper"

Related terms

ill-natured

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