All dour synonyms
dour
D d adj dour
- sullen — showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve.
- morose — gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
- harsh — ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect: harsh treatment; harsh manners.
- glum — sullenly or silently gloomy; dejected.
- surly — churlishly rude or bad-tempered: a surly waiter. Synonyms: sullen, uncivil, brusque, irascible, splenetic, choleric, cross; grumpy, grouchy, crabby.
- bleak — If a situation is bleak, it is bad, and seems unlikely to improve.
- dismal — causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy: dismal weather.
- dreary — causing sadness or gloom.
- forbidding — grim; unfriendly; hostile; sinister: his forbidding countenance.
- hard — not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
- saturnine — sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn.
- severe — harsh; unnecessarily extreme: severe criticism; severe laws.
- sour — having an acid taste, resembling that of vinegar, lemon juice, etc.; tart.
- stringent — rigorously binding or exacting; strict; severe: stringent laws.
- sulky — marked by or given to sulking; sullen.
- ugly — very unattractive or unpleasant to look at; offensive to the sense of beauty; displeasing in appearance.
- unfriendly — not amicable; not friendly or kindly in disposition; unsympathetic; aloof: an unfriendly coldness of manner.
- crabbed — surly; irritable; perverse
adjective dour
- stern — rear of boat
- hard-faced — cheeky
- grim — stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.
- gloomy — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
- determined — If you are determined to do something, you have made a firm decision to do it and will not let anything stop you.
- stubborn — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- set — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- purposeful — having a purpose.
- resolute — firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion: Her parents wanted her to marry, but she was focused on her education and remained resolute.
- resolved — firm in purpose or intent; determined.