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Summary

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dour:
- amer; acide; âpre; acerbe; amèrement; acidement
Wiktionary:
- dour → mélancolique, lugubre, taciturne, morose, têtu, rigide, inflexible, obstiné, entêté, rigoureux, sévère, austère, dur, rigoriste

English

Detailed Translations for dour from English to French

dour:

dour adj

dour (bitter)
amer; acide; âpre; acerbe; amèrement; acidement
- amer adj
- acide adj
- âpre adj
- acerbe adj
- amèrement adj
- acidement adj

Translation Matrix for dour:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
acide		acid; sourishness
Adjective	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	dark; dogged; forbidding; glowering; glum; grim; moody; morose; persistent; pertinacious; saturnine; sour; sullen; tenacious; unyielding
Modifier	Related Translations	Other Translations
acerbe	bitter; dour	acrid; angry; bitter; blazing; brusque; catty; curt; cutting; derisive; fiery; furious; glaring; indignant; injurious; insulting; nipping; offending; offensive; querulous; razor-sharp; scornful; sharp; snappish; snappy; sneering; virulent
acide	bitter; dour	bitter; derisive; scornful; sneering; sour; sourish; tasting sourishly
acidement	bitter; dour
amer	bitter; dour	bitter; derisive; scornful; sneering; sour; sourish; tasting sourishly; untrue
amèrement	bitter; dour	bitter; derisive; scornful; sneering; sour
âpre	bitter; dour	bare; barren; biting; bitter; cutting; derisive; embittered; exasperated; fierce; grim; injurious; insulting; offending; offensive; piquant; scornful; sneering; sourly; spiced; spicy; sullen; suppressed

Related Words for "dour":

dourness, dourer, dourest, dourly

Synonyms for "dour":

dogged; pertinacious; tenacious; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; unregenerate
forbidding; grim; unpleasant
dark; glowering; glum; moody; morose; saturnine; sour; sullen; ill-natured

Related Definitions for "dour":

showing a brooding ill humor¹
- the proverbially dour New England Puritan¹
harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance¹
- a dour, self-sacrificing life¹
stubbornly unyielding¹
- dour determination¹

Wiktionary Translations for dour:

dour

adjective

expressing gloom or melancholy
- dour → mélancolique; lugubre; taciturne; morose
unyielding and obstinate
- dour → têtu; rigide; inflexible; obstiné; entêté
stern, harsh and forbidding
- dour → rigoureux; sévère; austère; dur; rigoriste

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