Dour

Adjective

 * 1) Stern, harsh and forbidding.
 * 2) Unyielding and obstinate.
 * 3) Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy.

Synonyms

 * forbidding, harsh, severe, stern
 * obstinate, stubborn, unyielding
 * dejected, gloomy, melancholic, sullen

Derived terms

 * dourly
 * dourness

Thesaurus
Spartan, Spartanic, adamant, adamantine, astringent, austere, authoritarian, beetle-browed, black, black-browed, bleak, cast-iron, cheerless, cold, crabbed, dark, dejected, demanding, dismal, dreary, dumpish, exacting, exigent, firm, flinty, forbidding, frowning, fundamentalist, gloomy, glowering, glum, grim, grum, hard, hard-core, hard-nosed, hardy, harsh, hidebound, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable, inclement, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, intransigent, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, irreconcilable, lowering, melancholy, meticulous, moodish, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, mumpish, muscle-bound, obdurate, obstinate, orthodox, procrustean, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, relentless, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rock-ribbed, rockbound, rough, rugged, saturnine, scowling, severe, sour, steely, stern, stiff, straightlaced, straitlaced, strict, stringent, stubborn, sulky, sullen, surly, tough, ugly, unaffected, unalterable, unbending, unchangeable, uncompromising, unfriendly, ungentle, ungiving, unmoved, unrelenting, unsparing, unyielding

Etymology
From durus:, or possibly from  dúr:.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: tyly
 * French: sévère, austère, dur, rigoriste, rigoureux


 * Polish: srogi
 * Russian: строгий,
 * Spanish: severo, austero, duro, rigorista, riguroso


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: tyly
 * French: rigide, inflexible, obstiné, entêté, têtu


 * Russian: непреклонный
 * Spanish: rígido, inflexible, obstinado, terco, despiadado


 * Bulgarian: мрачен, намусен
 * Dutch: stuurs
 * Finnish: tyly
 * French: morose, taciturne, mélancolique, lugubre


 * Polish: ponury
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: lúgubre, taciturno, melancólico

Noun

 * 1) water
 * 2)  rain, tears, sweat, saliva