Dictionary Entry

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

1adjective
Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.
2adjective
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
3adjective
harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance- J.M.Barrie
"a dour, self-sacrificing life"
"a forbidding scowl"
Synonyms
forbidding grim
4adjective
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:

drou duro ordu roud

Common word forms

dourer dourly dourest dourness

Words from these letters

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