1 (of a person) giving the impression of being unfriendly and severe
2 (of a thing, a place, or a situation) not pleasant; with no features that make it lively or interesting:
The city, drab and dour by day, is transformed at night. * The game proved to be a dour struggle, with both men determined to win.
dourly adverb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for dour is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is dour a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, dour is tagged as adjective.
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