dour
[door, douuhr, dou-er]
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adjective
sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
severe; stern: His dour criticism made us regret having undertaken the job.
Scot. (of land) barren; rocky, infertile, or otherwise difficult or impossible to cultivate.
Origin of dour
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Related Words for dourest
sullen, morose, harsh, glum, surly, bleak, dismal, dreary, forbidding, hard, saturnine, severe, sour, stringent, sulky, ugly, unfriendly, crabbedExamples from the Web for dourest
Historical Examples of dourest
Mr Adam Wilkie is a Scot of the dourest and most sepulchral appearance.
A Safety MatchIan Hay
The rôle fitted him very well, for he is the dourest politician in Yugoslavia—a perfectly honest, upright, injudicious patriot.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2Henry Baerlein
And so we might, had it not been for the innate depravity of man as exemplified in the dourest driver that ever handled reins.
From Gretna Green to Land's EndKatharine Lee Bates
And this is how one Englishwoman found out that the Scot is at once the dourest and the tenderest of men.
His Majesty Baby and Some Common PeopleIan MacLaren
When he opened his cabin door he was confronted by the dourest aspect of the north that he had yet seen.
Burned BridgesBertrand W. Sinclair
dour
adjective
Word Origin for dour
C14: probably from Latin dūrus hard
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