Antonyms for dour
dʊər, daʊər, ˈdaʊ ərdour

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1. douradjective

   Unyielding and obstinate.

   Synonyms:
   stubborn, unyielding, obstinate

2. douradjective

   Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy.

   Synonyms:
   gloomy, dejected, melancholic, sullen

3. douradjective

   Synonyms:
   forbidding, stern, severe, harsh

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1. dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyieldingadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   docile, good-natured, pleasant

   Synonyms:
   saturnine, relentless, sullen, grim, long, sour, morose, haunting, retentive, dark, unyielding, moody, tenacious, recollective, coherent, lasting, pertinacious, dogged, glowering, forbidding, unrelenting, glum, persistent

2. dour, forbidding, grimadjective

   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

   Antonyms:
   good-natured, pleasant, docile

   Synonyms:
   down(p), dispirited, ominous, pertinacious, baleful, forbidding, sullen, dogged, dark, moody, disconsolate, threatening, glum, black, grisly, drear, minatory, low, unrelenting, down in the mouth, stern, blue, glowering, unappeasable, gruesome, sour, sinister, macabre, downhearted, grim, saturnine, tenacious, mordant, drab, downcast, menacing, unyielding, low-spirited, relentless, unforgiving, sick, gloomy, morose, ghastly, depressed, sorry, dingy, inexorable, dreary, dismal, persistent, minacious

3. dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullenadjective

   showing a brooding ill humor

   "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially 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"

   Antonyms:
   docile, pleasant, good-natured

   Synonyms:
   pertinacious, heavy, forbidding, glum, sullen, dogged, dark, moody, non-white, temperamental, threatening, coloured, disconsolate, dark-skinned, black, gloomy, drear, benighted, off, blue, glowering, obscure, sour, sinister, turned, grim, saturnine, tenacious, off-key, false, unyielding, sorry, drab, dingy, dreary, dismal, persistent, lowering, rancid, morose

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1. douradjective

   Synonyms:
   hard, obstinate, sour

How to use dour in a sentence?

1. Dan Patrick:

   I think about the leftist agenda of this administration and the dour, life-is-bad, you-better-get-used-to-it personality of Biden.

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