705 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ dˈa͡ʊ͡ə], [ dˈa‍ʊ‍ə], [ d_ˈaʊə]

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)

Homophones for dour

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.
  • cantankerous (adjective)
  • 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.
  • churlish (adjective)
  • 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.
  • crabby (adjective)
  • chuffiest,
  • chuffier,
  • most mumpish,
  • more mumpish.
  • crabby/crabbed (adjective)
  • 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.
  • crusty (adjective)
  • most snarling,
  • more snarling,
  • shorttempered,
  • short tempered.
  • dark (adjective)
  • more scowling,
  • more glowering,
  • most scowling,
  • most glowering.
  • forbidding (adjective)
  • 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.
  • gloomy (adjective)
  • 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.
  • grave (adjective)
  • 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.
  • gruff (adjective)
  • un-gracious,
  • un gracious.
  • hard (adjective)
  • hardboiled,
  • harder,
  • hard as nails,
  • coldblooded.
  • harsh (adjective)
  • hardshell,
  • hard nosed,
  • more hard nosed.
  • hostile (adjective)
  • 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.
  • incommunicable (adjective)
  • in-communicable,
  • in communicable,
  • un-communicative.
  • incommunicative (adjective)
  • in-communicative,
  • in communicative.
  • irritable (adjective)
  • crabby.
  • lugubrious (adjective)
  • Woful.
  • moody (adjective)
  • in huff,
  • introspective,
  • more piqued,
  • most piqued,
  • out sorts.
  • morose (adjective)
  • in a blue funk,
  • having blahs,
  • more perversive,
  • most perversive,
  • singing blues.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • 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.
  • severe (adjective)
  • 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.
  • strict (adjective)
  • 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.
  • sulky (adjective)
  • most pouting,
  • poutiest,
  • more sulking,
  • most brooding,
  • most sulking,
  • most sourpussed,
  • more brooding,
  • with-drawn,
  • with drawn,
  • poutier,
  • more sourpussed,
  • more pouting.
  • sullen (adjective)
  • grumpy,
  • fretful,
  • noncooperative,
  • grouchy,
  • uncooperative,
  • irascible,
  • dissociable,
  • malevolent,
  • contrary,
  • ungenial,
  • mean,
  • cross,
  • petulant,
  • cynical.
  • surly (adjective)
  • illmannered,
  • ill mannered,
  • most curmudgeonly,
  • more curmudgeonly.
  • taciturn (adjective)
  • unexpressive,
  • anti-social,
  • unforthcoming,
  • dried-up,
  • dried up,
  • clammed up.
  • tightlipped (adjective)
  • tight lipped.
  • ugly (adjective)
  • fellest.
  • uncommunicable (adjective)
  • un-communicable,
  • un communicable.
  • unhospitable (adjective)
  • un-inviting,
  • un inviting,
  • un-hospitable,
  • un hospitable.

• n.

  •
  • uninspired,
  • trivial,
  • tedious,
  • humdrum,
  • uninteresting,
  • mind-numbing,
  • dull,
  • boring,
  • unexciting.
  •
  • hot,
  • attitude.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • 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)
  • behaviour.

• 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.