Synonyms for Dour (same or very similar meaning)
WordNet sense 1 (stubbornly unyielding):
dogged, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding, dogged
WordNet sense 2 (tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield):
obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate
WordNet sense 3 (harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance):
forbidding, grim
WordNet sense 4 (disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings ):
unpleasant
WordNet sense 5 (showing a brooding ill humor):
dark, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen
WordNet sense 6 (having an irritable and unpleasant disposition):
ill-natured
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