0 (usually of a person's appearance or manner) unfriendly, unhappy, and very serious: --
The normally dour Mr James was photographed smiling and joking with friends.
1 (of a person’s appearance or manner) very serious and sad, and likely to judge people severely: --
a dour look
The funeral dance to the dour tune of bagpipes brings the footstep of doom into the forest.
These negatives assumed great importance in such a dour and unforgiving atmosphere.
The present stage of the war is dour and hard, and the fighting must be expected on all fronts to increase in scale and in intensity.
It is a dour business.
Some of them will be dour.
No industrialist wants to move to a country which appears to him to be in a state of steep decline and inhabited by dour people holding out the begging bowl.
The title of this debate may appear a little dour and unexciting.
I have heard them again to-day with the same dour insistence, and when the bon.
