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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Dour \Dour\, a. [Cf. F. dur, L. durus.]
     Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.
     [Scot.]
     [1913 Webster]
  
           A dour wife, a sour old carlin.          --C. Reade.
     [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Dour \Dour\, a. [Cf. F. dur, L. durus.]
     Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.
     [Scot.]
  
           A dour wife, a sour old carlin.          --C. Reade.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  dour
       adj 1: stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour
              determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of
              all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth
              but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious
              of opinion" [syn: bulldog, dogged, pertinacious,
               tenacious, unyielding]
       2: harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "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"- J.M.Barrie [syn:
          forbidding, grim]
       3: showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the
          proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless
          shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and
          unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic
          young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen
          crowd" [syn: dark, glowering, glum, moody, morose,
           saturnine, sour, sullen]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  dour
     Αγγλικά a.
     1 κακοδιάθετος, σκυθρωπός
     2 αυστηρός, δριμύς

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  dour
     Breton n.
     1 water
     2 (qualifier: by extension) rain, tears, sweat, saliva
     Scots a.
     stern, severe, relentless, (l en dour)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  dour
     a.
     1 stern, harsh and forbidding.
     2 unyielding and obstinate.
     3 Expressing gloom or melancholy.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  dour
     Breton n.
     1 water
     2 (qualifier: by extension) rain, tears, sweat, saliva

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  dour
     Breton n.
     1 water
     2 (qualifier: by extension) rain, tears, sweat, saliva

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  dour
     Englanti a.
     1 totinen, vakavamielinen, juro
     2 kova, ankara, karu

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  dour
     Bretonska n.
     vatten

From Breton-French FreeDict Dictionary (Geriadur Tomaz) ver. 0.8.3 :   [ freedict:bre-fra ]

  dour  (dourenn)
  liquide

From Breton-French FreeDict Dictionary (Geriadur Tomaz) ver. 0.8.3 :   [ freedict:bre-fra ]

  dour  (dourioù)
  1. eau
        "dour-avaloù"  - jus de pommes
        "dour-benniget"  - eau bénite
        "dour-c'hwez"  - sueur
        "dour-c'hwezenn"  - sueur
        "dour-chag"  - eau stagnante
        "dour-derv"  - gui
        "-dour-dindandouar"  - phréatique adj.
        "dour-gouez"  - eau de ruissellement
        "dour-gouloù"  - pétrole (pour lampes)
        "dour-hañvouez"  - purin
        "dour-ha-tredan"  - hydroélectrique
        "dour-houarn"  - eau minérale
        "dour-irin"  - piquette
        "dour-Javel"  - eau de Javel
        "dour-kreñv"  - eau-forte
        "dour-laezh"  - lait étendu d'eau
        "dour-maen"  - eau de carrière
        "dour-marv"  - eau stagnante
        "dour-mel"  - hydromel
        "maen-dour-mor"  - aigue-marine
        "dour-raz"  - eau de chaux
        "dour-red"  - eau courante
        "dour-sac'h"  - eau stagnante
        "dour-sav"  - eau de source
        "dour-sil"  - eau d'infiltration
        "dour-sistr"  - petit cidre
        "dour-skoilh"  - eau stagnante
        "dour-tan"  - essence
        "dour-te"  - thé léger
        "milin-dour"  - moulin à eau
        "pil-dour"  - forte averse
        "sach-dour"  - chasse d'eau
        "sal-dour"  - salle d'eau, salle de  bain
        "skarzh-dour"  - chasse d'eau
        "skejañ an dour"  - faire des ricochets
        "ski-dour"  - ski nautique
        "spazhañ an dour"  - faire des ricochets
        "sport-dour"  - sport nautique
        "dour c'hwezh-vat"  - parfum (produit)
        "lennad dour dindandouar"  - nappe phréatique
        "dour Kolun"  - eau de Cologne
        "dour meal"  - eau minérale
        "dour melar"  - eau minérale
        "dour pik-pik"  - limonade
        "dour skarzh"  - eaux usées
        "dour-beuz"  - inondation, déluge
  2. précipitations (météo)
        "tarzhad-dour"  - forte averse

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Dour /dˈaʊə/
  قاس

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  dour //ˈdaʊ.ɚ// //ˈdaʊə// //ˈdaʊɚ// //ˈdʊə// //ˈdʊɹ// 
  1. мрачен, намусен
  expressing gloom or melancholy
  2. строг, суров
  stern, harsh and forbidding

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  dour /dˈaʊə/ 
  tvrdohlavý

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  dour /dˈaʊə/ 
  zarputilý

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  dour /dˈaʊə/
  ernst und verbissen 

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  dour //ˈdaʊ.ɚ// //ˈdaʊə// //ˈdaʊɚ// //ˈdʊə// //ˈdʊɹ// 
  tyly 2.
  expressing gloom or melancholy
   3.
  stern, harsh and forbidding
   4.
  unyielding and obstinate

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  dour /dˈaʊə/
  nepopustljiv, strog

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  dour /dˈaʊə/
  1. morcos
  2. szigorú
  3. savanyú
  4. makacs

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  dour /dʊə/ 
    ponury, odstręczający

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  dour /dˈaʊə/
  1. asık yüzlu, ters, haşin, aksi.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈdaʊɝ/, /ˈdaʊɹ/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  110 Moby Thesaurus words for "dour":
     Spartan, Spartanic, adamant, adamantine, astringent, austere,
     authoritarian, beetle-browed, black, black-browed, bleak,
     cast-iron, cheerless, cold, crabbed, dark, dejected, demanding,
     dismal, dreary, dumpish, exacting, exigent, firm, flinty,
     forbidding, frowning, fundamentalist, gloomy, glowering, glum,
     grim, grum, hard, hard-core, hard-nosed, hardy, harsh, hidebound,
     immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable, inclement, inelastic,
     inexorable, inflexible, intransigent, iron, ironbound, ironclad,
     ironhanded, irreconcilable, lowering, melancholy, meticulous,
     moodish, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, mumpish,
     muscle-bound, obdurate, obstinate, orthodox, procrustean, purist,
     puristic, puritan, puritanic, relentless, rigid, rigorist,
     rigoristic, rigorous, rock-ribbed, rockbound, rough, rugged,
     saturnine, scowling, severe, sour, steely, stern, stiff,
     straightlaced, straitlaced, strict, stringent, stubborn, sulky,
     sullen, surly, tough, ugly, unaffected, unalterable, unbending,
     unchangeable, uncompromising, unfriendly, ungentle, ungiving,
     unmoved, unrelenting, unsparing, unyielding
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 不爱讲话的,沉沉的,严厉的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 不爱讲话的,沉沉的,严厉的,顽强的

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