Dour
Dour is a valid word in word games.
- Tile score
- 5 points
- Letters
- 4
- Syllables
- 2
- How common
- Rare
Meaning of dour
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adjectiveStubbornly unyielding- T.S.Eliot.
“dogged persistence”
Similar: dogged , persistent , pertinacious , tenacious , unyielding
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adjectiveHarshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance- J.M.Barrie.
“a dour, self-sacrificing life”
Similar: forbidding , grim
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adjectiveShowing a brooding ill humor- Bruce Bliven.
“a dark scowl”
Similar: dark , glowering , glum , moody , morose , saturnine , sour , sullen
Definitions from WordNet 3.0, Princeton University.
Anagrams of dour
- duro5
Words inside dour
Words of three letters or more made from its letters, longest first.
- our3
- duo4
- rod4
- dor4
- oud4
- udo4
- urd4
Words that rhyme with dour
- hour
- our
- power
- flour
- flower
- shower
- tower
- bower
- sour
- cower
- glower
- scour
- devour
- empower
- superpower
- overpower
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