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dour - Meaning in Sanskrit

dour - Meaning in Sanskrit

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Definitions and Meaning of dour in English

dour adjective

  1. showing a brooding ill humor

    Synonyms

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

    Examples

    • "a dark scowl"
    • "a glum, hopeless shrug"
    • "a morose and unsociable manner"
    • "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"
    • "a sour temper"
    • "a sullen crowd"
    • "he sat in moody silence"
    • "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"
  2. harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance

    Synonyms

    forbidding, grim, grim

    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"
  3. stubbornly unyielding

    Synonyms

    dogged, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding

    Examples

    • "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"
    • "dogged persistence"
    • "dour determination"
    • "men tenacious of opinion"
    • "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"

What is dour meaning in Sanskrit?

The word or phrase dour refers to showing a brooding ill humor, or harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance, or stubbornly unyielding. See dour meaning in Sanskrit, dour definition, translation and meaning of dour in Sanskrit. Find dour similar words, dour synonyms. Learn and practice the pronunciation of dour. Find the answer of what is the meaning of dour in Sanskrit.

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