Definition of dour

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• dour is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 5
• dour is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 5
• dour is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 6

Definition of dour

• harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a dour, self-sacrificing life

  Synonyms

  1. forbidding
  2. grim
• stubbornly unyielding (adjective)

  Examples

  1. dour determination

  Synonyms

  1. dogged
  2. persistent
  3. pertinacious
  4. tenacious
  5. unyielding
• showing a brooding ill humor (adjective)

  Examples

  1. the proverbially dour New England Puritan

  Synonyms

  1. dark
  2. glowering
  3. glum
  4. moody
  5. morose
  6. saturnine
  7. sour
  8. sullen

See definition of dour in Merriam Webster