Definition of Dour

Adjective: dour (dourer,dourest) daw(-u)r or dÃ»r

Stubbornly unyielding
"dour determination";
- dogged, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding
Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
"a dour, self-sacrificing life";
- forbidding, grim
Showing a brooding ill humour
"the proverbially dour New England Puritan";
- dark, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen