dour

Meanings

• stubbornly unyielding; ; ; ; - T.S.Eliot
  • "dour determination"
• harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; ; ; ; - J.M.Barrie
  • "a dour, self-sacrificing life"
• showing a brooding ill humor; ; ; ; ; ; - Bruce Bliven
  • "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"

Synonyms

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