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dour

adj
/ˈdʊə/UK/ˈdʊɹ/US/ˈdur/

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots dour, possibly from Latin dūrus (“hard, stern”), via Middle Irish dúr. Compare French dur, Catalan dur, Italian duro, Portuguese duro, Romanian dur, Spanish duro. Doublet of dure.

  1. derived from dúr
  2. derived from dūrus
  3. borrowed from dour

Definitions

  1. Stern, harsh and forbidding.

    • The principal reason is that, in competition with modern road vehicles running over motorways, B.R. has a dour struggle to match the performance of its rivals cost-wise.
    • Hayek had contributed the foreword, in which he declared that “he got so fascinated” by the book—high praise from the dour Viennese sage—that he read it from start to finish in one sitting.

  2. Unyielding and obstinate.

  3. Expressing gloom or melancholy.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Alternative form of daur.

      • The detachment that went out the day before yesterday on a dour have not returned: the party consisted of 200 Highlanders and 100 Sikhs, also twenty horsemen.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA