dourness

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English - Turkish
{i} inatçılık
{i} aksilik
dour
soğuk
dour
suratsız
dour
sert
dour
{s} inatçı
dour
{s} asık suratlı
dour
{s} aksi
dour
{s} ters
dour
{s} asık yüzlü, ters, haşin, aksi
dour
asık yüzlu
English - English
The characteristic of being dour; gloominess; sternness
{i} gloominess; fierceness
dour
Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy
dour
Stern, harsh and forbidding
dour
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"
dour
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
dour
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
dour
unyielding and obstinate
dour
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"
dour
gloomy and sullenly unhappy
dour
{s} gloomy, serious
dour
Barrie
dour
Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold
dourness
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