Definition for Dour:

• ( Scotch). Severe, stern, obstinate. Hence dourly adv., dourness n. [ Latin]

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.
  •severe (adjective)
  • dry,
  • imperial,
  • brusque,
  • brisk,
  • fundamental,
  • strait-laced,
  • disciplined,
  • crisp,
  • raw,
  • acrimonious,
  • critical,
  • cutting,
  • spare,
  • basic,
  • draconian,
  • censorious,
  • iron-handed,
  • correct,
  • piquant,
  • precise,
  • curt,
  • prudish,
  • keen,
  • intolerant,
  • caustic,
  • puritanical,
  • acerbic,
  • sharp,
  • stark,
  • lean,
  • short,
  • ascetic,
  • intense,
  • acute,
  • blunt,
  • tart,
  • oppressive,
  • 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)
  • cynical,
  • noncooperative,
  • fretful,
  • grouchy,
  • cross,
  • malevolent,
  • irascible,
  • grumpy,
  • contrary,
  • crabby,
  • mean,
  • ungenial,
  • dissociable,
  • uncooperative,
  • petulant.
  •surly (adjective)
  • illmannered,
  • ill mannered,
  • most curmudgeonly,
  • more curmudgeonly.
  •taciturn (adjective)
  • dried-up,
  • unforthcoming,
  • incommunicative,
  • dried up,
  • tightlipped,
  • Incommunicable,
  • uncommunicable,
  • clammed up,
  • anti-social,
  • unexpressive.
  •tenebrific (adjective)
  • tenebrific.
  •tightlipped (adjective)
  • tight lipped.
  •ugly (adjective)
  • fellest.
  •uncommunicable (adjective)
  • un-communicable,
  • un communicable.
  •uncommunicative (adjective)
  • taciturn.
  •unhospitable (adjective)
  • un inviting,
  • Unhospitable,
  • un-inviting,
  • un hospitable,
  • un-hospitable.

• n.

  •
  • uninspired,
  • trivial,
  • tedious,
  • humdrum,
  • uninteresting,
  • mind-numbing,
  • dull,
  • boring,
  • unexciting.
  •
  • hot,
  • attitude.
  •unfriendly (noun)
  • stony.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • anti,
  • austere,
  • bearish,
  • broody,
  • cantankerous,
  • chapfallen,
  • churlish,
  • cloddish,
  • cold sober,
  • crusty,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • dark,
  • dead set,
  • grave,
  • hard,
  • harsh,
  • hostile,
  • in low spirits,
  • long-faced,
  • lowbred,
  • lugubrious,
  • mirthless,
  • moody,
  • off-putting,
  • perversive,
  • resentful,
  • saturnine,
  • strict,
  • sullen,
  • surly,
  • ugly,
  • unneighborly,
  • vinegary,
  • Chuffy,
  • Clodhopping,
  • Iron-fisted,
  • Mopish,
  • Mumpish,
  • Oppugnant,
  • Stickling,
  • pouty,
  • unwelcoming,
  • ill-disposed,
  • vinegarish,
  • grim-faced,
  • in a huff,
  • sourpussed,
  • bare-bones,
  • barebones,
  • down in dumps,
  • down in mouth,
  • down in the dumps,
  • hard shell,
  • hardnosed,
  • having blue devils,
  • having the blahs,
  • in a bad mood,
  • in bad mood,
  • in blue funk,
  • in doldrums,
  • in the doldrums,
  • ironfisted,
  • nasty-tempered,
  • no nonsense,
  • singing the blues,
  • strictly business.
  •n.
  • abrasive,
  • abrupt,
  • adamant,
  • adamantine,
  • aloof,
  • antagonism,
  • antagonistic,
  • antisocial,
  • asocial,
  • astringent,
  • authoritarian,
  • beetle-browed,
  • belligerent,
  • black,
  • bleak,
  • brutal,
  • bulldog,
  • cheerless,
  • chilly,
  • clinical,
  • cold,
  • cold fish,
  • coldly,
  • cool,
  • coolly,
  • coolness,
  • crabbed,
  • dagger,
  • dejected,
  • demanding,
  • dismal,
  • distance,
  • distant,
  • distantly,
  • dogged,
  • dreary,
  • estrange,
  • estranged,
  • exacting,
  • exigent,
  • firm,
  • flinty,
  • forbidding,
  • friend,
  • frigid,
  • frostily,
  • frosty,
  • frowning,
  • fundamentalist,
  • funny,
  • glacial,
  • gloomy,
  • glowering,
  • glum,
  • grim,
  • gruff,
  • hard-nosed,
  • hardy,
  • hidebound,
  • icy,
  • ill-natured,
  • immovable,
  • immutable,
  • impersonal,
  • implacable,
  • inclement,
  • inelastic,
  • inexorable,
  • inflexible,
  • inhospitable,
  • intransigent,
  • iron,
  • ironclad,
  • irreconcilable,
  • lowering,
  • melancholy,
  • meticulous,
  • mixer,
  • morose,
  • muscle-bound,
  • obdurate,
  • obstinate,
  • offhand,
  • offish,
  • orthodox,
  • out,
  • persistent,
  • pertinacious,
  • prickly,
  • purist,
  • puritan,
  • puritanic,
  • relentless,
  • remote,
  • reserve,
  • reserved,
  • rigid,
  • rigorous,
  • rock-ribbed,
  • rockbound,
  • rough,
  • rugged,
  • scowling,
  • self-contained,
  • severe,
  • sour,
  • spartan,
  • standoffish,
  • steely,
  • stern,
  • stiff,
  • straightlaced,
  • straitlaced,
  • stringent,
  • stubborn,
  • sulky,
  • tenacious,
  • time,
  • tough,
  • unaffected,
  • unalterable,
  • unapproachable,
  • unbending,
  • unchangeable,
  • uncompromising,
  • unfriendly,
  • ungentle,
  • unmoved,
  • unpleasant,
  • unrelenting,
  • unsmiling,
  • unsociable,
  • unsparing,
  • unyielding,
  • wintry,
  • withdraw,
  • withdrawal,
  • Black-browed,
  • Dumpish,
  • Grum,
  • Impliable,
  • Ironbound,
  • Moodish,
  • Moping,
  • Rigorist,
  • cold-eyed,
  • Procrustean,
  • Puristic,
  • mopey,
  • defriend,
  • Ungiving,
  • cold-shoulder,
  • hard-core,
  • ironhanded,
  • cast-iron,
  • rigoristic,
  • spartanic.
  •v.
  • behaviour.

Antonyms for Dour:

• adj.

  • gloomy, grim
    gentle, pleasant, nice, cheery, bright, cheerful, happy.
  • Other antonyms:
    inviting, giddy, mirthful, light-headed, pleasing, flighty, scatterbrained, harebrained, tranquil, soothing, docile, meek, tender, featherbrained, easy, soft, quiet, goofy, merry, frivolous, playful, sweet, mellow, benignant, silly, benign, good-natured, glad, bland, lighthearted, agreeable, mild.

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    regenerate.

Dour Sentence Examples:

• But quickly the dour astronomer proved the fact.

• Wingate remained dour and silent as was now his wont, and cursing his luck that he had had no horse to carry him up in the late pursuit of the Sioux.

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.