DOURER - Definition & Meaning for Kids
Meaning 1
Part of speech: Adjective (satellite)
showing a brooding ill humor
Example: 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
Meaning 2
Part of speech: Adjective (satellite)
harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
Example: 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
Meaning 3
Part of speech: Adjective (satellite)
stubbornly unyielding
Example: 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