dour

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English - Turkish
soğuk
suratsız
sert
{s} inatçı
{s} asık suratlı
{s} aksi
{s} ters
{s} asık yüzlü, ters, haşin, aksi
asık yüzlu
dourness
{i} inatçılık
dourness
{i} aksilik
English - English
Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy
Stern, harsh and forbidding
Unyielding and obstinate
showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the (Atasözü)ially 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"
If you describe someone as dour, you mean that they are very serious and unfriendly. a dour, taciturn man + dourly dour·ly disapproval The old man stared dourly at them
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
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"
gloomy and sullenly unhappy
{s} gloomy, serious
Barrie
Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold
dourness
The characteristic of being dour; gloominess; sternness
dourer
More dour; stern, harsh, gloomy
dourest
superlative of dour
dourly
in a sullen manner; "he sat in his chair dourly
dourly
in a sullen manner; "he sat in his chair dourly"
dourly
gloomily, in a serious manner
dourly
In a dour manner
dourness
{i} gloominess; fierceness
dour
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