dour

dour is a 4-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.
2. adjective. showing a brooding ill humor- Bruce Bliven

   "a dark scowl"

   "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"

   Synonyms: dark, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen

3. adjective. harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance- J.M.Barrie

   "a dour, self-sacrificing life"

   "a forbidding scowl"

   Synonyms: forbidding, grim

4. adjective. stubbornly unyielding- T.S.Eliot

   "dogged persistence"

   "dour determination"

   Synonyms: dogged, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding

Synonyms

dark, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen, forbidding, grim, dogged, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in dour:

duro, ordu, roud

Common word forms

dourer, dourly, dourest, dourness

Words from these letters

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