English Word

Dour

IPA: daʊəər

Hindi: दौर / दौड़ / डौर

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Hindi Meanings

1.
रूखा सूखा (Adjective) 🔊

English
The dour sky threatened rain, casting gloomy shadows over the abandoned town square.
2.
सख़्त (Adjective) 🔊

English
The dour sky threatened rain, casting gloomy shadows over the abandoned park.

Other Related Words

DOURLY = रूठ कर (Adverb) 🔊

हिन्दी

वह रूठ कर अपनी कुर्सी पें बैठ गया

English

he sat in his chair dourly

Definition of Dour

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"
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
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"

[Source: Pustak.org]

Similar Words (Synonyms) of Dour

morose forbidding pertinacious unyielding glum glowering sullen moody saturnine dark sour dogged tenacious grim

Dour meaning in Hindi: रूखा सूखा. Definition, pronunciation, antonyms, synonyms and example sentences. Dour ka hindi mein matalab aur prayog.

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