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dour 音标拼音: [d'ɑʊɚ] [d'ɑʊr] a. 不爱讲话的,沉沉的,严厉的,顽强的 不爱讲话的,沈沈的,严厉的,顽强的 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" [ synonym: { dogged}, { dour}, { persistent}, { 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 [ synonym: { dour}, { 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" [ synonym: { dark}, { dour}, { glowering}, { glum}, { moody}, { morose}, { saturnine}, { sour}, { sullen}] 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] Doura110 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
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