Usually means: Stern, gloomy in appearance, manner.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. dour: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dour: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dour: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dour: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dour: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dour, dour: Wordnik
  7. dour: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dour: Wiktionary
  9. dour: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dour: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dour: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dour: Dictionary.com
  13. dour: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dour: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dour (disambiguation), Dour: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dour: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dour: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dour: Rhymezone
  19. dour: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dour: Free Dictionary
  21. dour: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. dour: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dour: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dour: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. DOUR: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dour: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See dourly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Stern, harsh and forbidding.
adjective:  Unyielding and obstinate.
adjective:  Expressing gloom or melancholy.

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