- Types Of Speech
- You can use dour as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Dour
- A 1 syllables adjective satellite and 4 letters with the letters d, o, r, and u, 2 consonants, 2 vowels and 1 syllables with the middle letters ou. Dour starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters d, do, dou, and the ending characters are r, ur, our, ..
- Definition
- 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
- Origin/Roots
- Scots
- School Grade
- Dour is set as a sat word that starts with d, ends with r, 1 syllables, 2 vowels and 4 letters.
- Scrabble
- Is dour a scrabble word? A 5 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Dour in Pig Latin is said as "ourday or ourdway".
- Unigram
- d | o | u | r
- Bigram
- do | ou | ur
- Trigram
- dou | our
- Quadrigram
- dour
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- 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 - 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 - 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"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abrasive | a substance that abrades or wears down |
| Acidity | the property of being acidic |
| Adamant | very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem |
| Adamantine | not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course unsusceptible to persuasion "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind" "Cynthia was inexorable she would have none of him"- W.Churchill "an intransigent conservative opposed to every libera |
| After Part | |
| Ascetic | practices self denial as spiritual discipline |
| Ascetical | practicing great self-denial "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James "a desert nomad''s austere life" "a spartan diet" "a spartan existence" |
| Astringent | a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals |
| Astringent Drug | |
| Austere | practicing great self-denial "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James "a desert nomad''s austere life" "a spartan diet" "a spartan existence" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Dour
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Dour | 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 |
View English words with the unique letters used in dour. Words With The Letters Doru
| Name | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|
| Abdourahman | Yes | No |
| Kaddour | Yes | No |
| Adour | Yes | No |
| Dadour | Yes | No |
| Hadour | Yes | No |
View All Names For Dour
| Similar Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ill Natured | n/a |
| Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Odour (5 letters) | 6 +1 | 7 +1 | odour | ||
| Ardour (6 letters) | 7 +2 | 8 +2 | ardour | ||
| Doura (5 letters) | 6 +1 | 7 +1 | doura | ||
| Dour (4 letters) | 5 | 6 | dour | ||
| Duroc (5 letters) | 8 +3 | 10 +4 | duroc |
Dour Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With D
- Ends With R
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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