What is another word for dour?
705 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ dˈa͡ʊ͡ə], [ dˈaʊə], [ d_ˈaʊə]
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Similar words for dour:
- austere (adjective)
- cantankerous (adjective)
- churlish (adjective)
- crabby (adjective)
- crabby/crabbed (adjective)
- crusty (adjective)
- dark (adjective)
- forbidding (adjective)
- gloomy (adjective)
- grave (adjective)
- gruff (adjective)
- hard (adjective)
- harsh (adjective)
- hostile (adjective)
- incommunicable (adjective)
- incommunicative (adjective)
- irritable (adjective)
- lugubrious (adjective)
- moody (adjective)
- morose (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- severe (adjective)
- strict (adjective)
- sulky (adjective)
- sullen (adjective)
- surly (adjective)
- taciturn (adjective)
- tightlipped (adjective)
- ugly (adjective)
- uncommunicable (adjective)
- unhospitable (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Dour:
adj.
• austere (adjective)- most bare bones,
- unadorned,
- primitive,
- more bare-bones,
- un embellished,
- most bare-bones,
- un adorned,
- more bare bones,
- un-adorned,
- un-embellished,
- more barebones,
- unembellished,
- most barebones.
- illhumored,
- more vinegary,
- huffy,
- badtempered,
- more illhumored,
- more bearish,
- most ill-humored,
- dis-agreeable,
- more ill humored,
- snappish,
- most ill humored,
- dis agreeable,
- irritable,
- more vinegarish,
- ill humored,
- most illhumored,
- ill natured,
- more ill-humored,
- illnatured,
- ill-humored,
- most vinegarish,
- most vinegary,
- bad tempered,
- most bearish.
- more cussed,
- un mannerly,
- ill tempered,
- un-mannerly,
- un civil,
- un-polished,
- dis-courteous,
- dis courteous,
- more cloddish,
- most unneighborly,
- illtempered,
- most cussed,
- un-civilized,
- un cultured,
- more unneighborly,
- un-civil,
- oafish,
- most clodhopping,
- un neighborly,
- un sociable,
- most lowbred,
- most cloddish,
- un-sociable,
- more clodhopping,
- more lowbred,
- un polished,
- un-cultured,
- un civilized,
- un-neighborly.
- more difficult,
- nasty tempered,
- more nasty-tempered,
- more nastytempered,
- mis-anthropic,
- most nasty tempered,
- most crabbed,
- more splenetic,
- splenetic,
- mis anthropic,
- most nasty-tempered,
- nastytempered,
- more nasty tempered,
- most splenetic,
- most nastytempered.
- most offputting,
- more foreboding,
- un friendliest,
- more offputting,
- un-friendly,
- un-friendlier,
- un friendlier,
- more off-putting,
- more off putting,
- most foreboding,
- fore boding,
- un approachable,
- fore-boding,
- un-pleasant,
- most off putting,
- un-friendliest,
- offputting,
- un pleasant,
- un-approachable,
- off putting,
- most off-putting.
- more chapfallen,
- un happiest,
- down mouth,
- down the mouth,
- most moping,
- un-happy,
- most mopish,
- more dragged,
- in the dumps,
- un happy,
- more mopish,
- down dumps,
- most mirthless,
- most chapfallen,
- most dragged,
- de-pressed,
- down the dumps,
- de pressed,
- broodiest,
- un happier,
- more mirthless,
- more moping,
- broodier,
- in dumps,
- de solate,
- de-solate.
- more muted,
- most long-faced,
- ponderous,
- more grim-faced,
- most grimfaced,
- more unsmiling,
- most unsmiling,
- more long faced,
- most grim faced,
- long faced,
- most muted,
- more grimfaced,
- grimfaced,
- most long faced,
- more long-faced,
- nononsense,
- more longfaced,
- most grim-faced,
- longfaced,
- grim faced,
- un smiling,
- un-smiling,
- more grim faced,
- most longfaced.
- more unwelcoming,
- in hospitable,
- more disapproving,
- more illdisposed,
- most disapproving,
- dis approving,
- more ill disposed,
- most anti,
- more ill-disposed,
- most opposite,
- dis-approving,
- unpropitious,
- more anti,
- ill disposed,
- most oppugnant,
- most ill disposed,
- in-hospitable,
- un propitious,
- un welcoming,
- most ill-disposed,
- most unwelcoming,
- more oppugnant,
- un-propitious,
- illdisposed,
- most illdisposed,
- un-welcoming,
- un-favorable,
- un favorable.
- ugly,
- Clodhopping,
- dead set,
- hard,
- off-putting,
- saturnine,
- hostile,
- Oppugnant,
- barebones,
- vinegary,
- in doldrums,
- Stickling,
- cold sober,
- sullen,
- Mumpish,
- mirthless,
- pouty,
- chapfallen,
- ironfisted,
- cloddish,
- in a bad mood,
- strictly business,
- perversive,
- in low spirits,
- unwelcoming,
- sourpussed,
- Chuffy,
- in blue funk,
- long-faced,
- hardnosed,
- surly,
- nasty-tempered,
- lowbred,
- having the blahs,
- hard shell,
- resentful,
- dark,
- down in mouth,
- strict,
- having blue devils,
- harsh,
- anti,
- singing the blues,
- broody,
- lugubrious,
- down in the dumps,
- in the doldrums,
- crusty,
- ill-disposed,
- grim-faced,
- down in dumps,
- in bad mood,
- moody,
- Mopish,
- bare-bones,
- bearish,
- grave,
- austere,
- vinegarish,
- unneighborly,
- no nonsense,
- churlish,
- Iron-fisted,
- cantankerous,
- curmudgeonly,
- in a huff.
- dry,
- blunt,
- brusque,
- sharp,
- stark,
- caustic,
- imperial,
- acerbic,
- correct,
- acrimonious,
- intense,
- draconian,
- ascetic,
- acute,
- cutting,
- oppressive,
- strait-laced,
- critical,
- curt,
- tart,
- spare,
- basic,
- fundamental,
- disciplined,
- lean,
- piquant,
- keen,
- intolerant,
- puritanical,
- brisk,
- short,
- prudish,
- precise,
- censorious,
- raw,
- crisp,
- stiff-necked.
- most iron fisted,
- more iron-fisted,
- more stickling,
- un-permissive,
- unpermissive,
- iron fisted,
- more unpermissive,
- most stickling,
- most iron-fisted,
- most ironfisted,
- more iron fisted,
- un permissive,
- more ironfisted,
- up tight,
- up-tight,
- most unpermissive.
- most pouting,
- poutiest,
- more sulking,
- most brooding,
- most sulking,
- most sourpussed,
- more brooding,
- with-drawn,
- with drawn,
- poutier,
- more sourpussed,
- more pouting.
n.
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- uninspired,
- trivial,
- tedious,
- humdrum,
- uninteresting,
- mind-numbing,
- dull,
- boring,
- unexciting.
- ironclad,
- dismal,
- rock-ribbed,
- glum,
- stubborn,
- Puristic,
- chilly,
- unrelenting,
- frigid,
- clinical,
- belligerent,
- straightlaced,
- rockbound,
- mopey,
- gruff,
- obdurate,
- Grum,
- rugged,
- exigent,
- irreconcilable,
- asocial,
- defriend,
- bleak,
- Ungiving,
- funny,
- persistent,
- unchangeable,
- puritanic,
- unmoved,
- Rigorist,
- rough,
- hard-core,
- spartan,
- demanding,
- Black-browed,
- implacable,
- tough,
- icy,
- obstinate,
- firm,
- fundamentalist,
- rigoristic,
- authoritarian,
- unapproachable,
- puritan,
- immovable,
- frosty,
- unfriendly,
- inhospitable,
- morose,
- distant,
- friend,
- flinty,
- time,
- adamant,
- bulldog,
- unsparing,
- Procrustean,
- cast-iron,
- forbidding,
- offhand,
- frowning,
- inelastic,
- rigorous,
- inflexible,
- unsmiling,
- crabbed,
- immutable,
- pertinacious,
- meticulous,
- unpleasant,
- orthodox,
- antagonism,
- estrange,
- grim,
- purist,
- antagonistic,
- withdrawal,
- Ironbound,
- hard-nosed,
- glacial,
- wintry,
- inexorable,
- hidebound,
- coolness,
- impersonal,
- offish,
- unyielding,
- aloof,
- cold,
- coldly,
- coolly,
- cheerless,
- melancholy,
- unsociable,
- iron,
- uncompromising,
- withdraw,
- unbending,
- rigid,
- Dumpish,
- cold fish,
- black,
- cold-eyed,
- standoffish,
- cool,
- ill-natured,
- adamantine,
- dagger,
- intransigent,
- estranged,
- beetle-browed,
- out,
- mixer,
- distantly,
- reserve,
- Moodish,
- frostily,
- steely,
- stringent,
- unalterable,
- prickly,
- spartanic,
- abrasive,
- unaffected,
- straitlaced,
- brutal,
- relentless,
- dreary,
- cold-shoulder,
- self-contained,
- ironhanded,
- severe,
- muscle-bound,
- dogged,
- astringent,
- stiff,
- tenacious,
- sour,
- stern,
- antisocial,
- hardy,
- glowering,
- distance,
- Impliable,
- remote,
- sulky,
- abrupt,
- inclement,
- lowering,
- exacting,
- reserved,
- gloomy,
- ungentle,
- scowling,
- dejected,
- Moping.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
• Other relevant words (noun):- low-spirited,
- ill-tempered,
- bluff,
- MOPY,
- gruesome,
- ghastly,
- temperamental,
- depressing,
- punitive,
- retentive,
- bullheaded,
- perverse,
- prim,
- threatening,
- iron-handed,
- mordant,
- sorry,
- low,
- poker-faced,
- Subfuscous,
- earnest,
- lasting,
- unfeeling,
- despondent,
- Precisian,
- pensive,
- pigheaded,
- merciless,
- woebegone,
- coercive,
- downcast,
- serious,
- formidable,
- disheartened,
- joyless,
- dyspeptic,
- doleful,
- menacing,
- dispirited,
- turned,
- withering,
- depressed,
- unhappy,
- ill-humoured,
- grisly,
- sad,
- heavy,
- somber,
- false,
- absolute,
- haughty,
- straight-faced,
- grinding,
- imperative,
- thoughtful,
- mournful,
- tightlipped,
- dispiriting,
- baleful,
- sick,
- funereal,
- benighted,
- solemn,
- positive,
- colored,
- secret,
- sulking,
- peevish,
- coherent,
- peremptory,
- macabre,
- sinister,
- sorrowful,
- taciturn,
- headstrong,
- brooding,
- punishing,
- Incommunicable,
- minacious,
- blue,
- dark-skinned,
- chap-fallen,
- tenebrific,
- mulish,
- unkind,
- crotchety,
- sedate,
- po-faced,
- sticking together,
- Pouting,
- sombre,
- fierce,
- unappeasable,
- minatory,
- dingy,
- drear,
- long,
- choleric,
- uninviting,
- Hard-headed,
- downhearted,
- drab,
- closed,
- uncommunicable,
- sunless,
- heavy-hearted,
- off-key,
- coloured,
- unforgiving,
- arbitrary,
- down,
- uncompassionate,
- subfusc,
- non-white,
- searching,
- cranky,
- pitiless,
- inquisitorial,
- ominous,
- disconsolate,
- Hard-shell,
- ruthless,
- Incompliant,
- determined,
- recollective,
- abusive,
- sober,
- incommunicative,
- rancid,
- intimidating,
- crestfallen,
- comfortless,
- haunting,
- obscure,
- tyrannical,
- stony,
- recalcitrant,
- bad-tempered,
- disapproving,
- granitic,
- angry,
- atrabilious,
- unregenerate,
- hard core,
- off,
- arrogant,
- pessimistic,
- humourless,
- brutish,
- desolate,
- Unhospitable,
- staid,
- cruel,
- inhuman,
- extortionate.
Homophones for Dour:
- doer, dyer, didder, diarrhoea, doddery, drawer, durer, dourah, derriere, diary, detour, drier, doorway, dior, dowery, dare, Diarrhea, dauer, dari, Dieter, durio, dower, dodderer, dither, durra, deodar, darrow, door, drey, doura, dear, deere, drew, draw, drawee, dory, dewar, dreary, deer, draw away, death row, deary, dryer, dead air, dodder, dry, datura, duty tour, death adder, dowry, dray, Dr., dairy, dearie, deter, dire, dura, dietary, drear.
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