dour
UKdeər
US'dauə
معنی فارسی
محکم سخت بدشواري باشکال سفت
معنی کامل و مثالها
/door, dour/adj.
● اخمو، بداخم، عبوس، ترشرو
a dour old maid
یک دختر کج خلق و خانهمانده
● (اسکاتلند) سرسخت، لجوج
● (اسکاتلند) سختگیر، سخت، شدید
تعریف انگلیسی
adjective
- 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”
- 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”