Crossword-Solution: DOUR 4 letters, 313 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

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Word Word Type Definition
Dour a. Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.

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Word Anagrams
DOUR anagram DURO, ORDU, ROUD, RUDO, URDO

We have 313 clues for the answer “DOUR”

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Appearing critical 1 answer
Apt to be sour 1 answer
Brooding and frowning 1 answer
Certainly not cheery 1 answer
Far from cheery 1 answer
Far from perky 1 answer
Forbidding, as an expression 1 answer
Gloomy or forbidding 1 answer
Gloomy or stern 1 answer
Gloomy, Scottish style. 1 answer
Gloomy-looking 1 answer
Glowering 1 answer
Grim; moody 1 answer
Grimly grumpy 1 answer
Having a cheerless aspect 1 answer
Having a gloomy outlook 1 answer
In no mood for jokes 1 answer
Incessantly gloomy 1 answer
Like Eeyore, usually 1 answer
Like Henry Kissinger's demeanor 1 answer
Like typical prison guards 1 answer
No fun to be around 1 answer
Not exactly chipper 1 answer
Not looking bright 1 answer
Not upbeat 1 answer
On the gloomy side 1 answer
Opposite of cheery 1 answer
Relentlessly gloomy 1 answer
Relentlessly glum 1 answer
Sadfaced. 1 answer
Severe, stern, gloomy 1 answer
Silently ill-humored 1 answer
Silently sullen 1 answer
Sour in aspect. 1 answer
Sour-visaged. 1 answer
Stern and gloomy 1 answer
Stern, to Scotty 1 answer
Stern-looking 1 answer
Stern: Scot. 1 answer
Stubborn and unyielding 1 answer
Stubbornly unyielding 1 answer
Sullen in aspect. 1 answer
Sullen; unsmiling 1 answer
Sullenly unhappy 1 answer
The look of gloomy ones. 1 answer
Type of expression with sad eyes 1 answer
Unbending as some Scotsmen. 1 answer
Unsmiling in demeanor 1 answer
Unsociably cross 1 answer
Visibly forbidding 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DOUR (5)

They've words for every one but me -- shake hands wi' half the crew, Except the dour Scots engineer, the man they never knew.
Verses 1889-1896 Rudyard Kipling 2008
There was nae noise to be heard, but just the sough of the swalled burns, and Hob, the dour yin, risping his teeth as he gaed.” With the first glint of the morning they saw they were on the drove road, and at that the four stopped and had a dram to their breakfasts, for they knew that Dand must have guided them right, and the rogues could be but little ahead, hot foot for Edinburgh by the way of the Pentland Hills.
Weir of Hermiston Robert Louis Stevenson 2010
But if I did so, and came presently to _doun_, which is the classical Scots spelling of the English _down_, I should begin to feel uneasy; and if I went on a little farther, and came to a classical Scots word, like _stour_ or _dour_ or _clour_, I should know precisely where I was—that is to say, that I was out of sight of land on those high seas of spelling reform in which so many strong swimmers have toiled vainly.
Underwoods Robert Louis Stevenson 2013
Not places to shrink back from--oh no! no! One could be sure, then--SURE! Feargus had lifted his bonnet with that extraordinary triumph in his look--even Feargus, who had been rather dour.
The White People Frances Hodgson Burnett 2006
Terutak’, long, dour Scots fisherman as he was, expressed his satisfaction within bounds; but the wife beamed; and there was an old gentleman present—her father, I suppose—who seemed nigh translated.
In the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson 2012

Quotes with DOUR (3)

Da. This is going very well already." Thomas barked out a laugh. "There are seven of us against the Red King and his thirteen most powerful nobles, and it's going well?" Mouse sneezed." Eight," Thomas corrected himself. He rolled his eyes and said, "And the psycho death faerie makes it nine.""It is like movie," Sanya said, nodding. "Dibs on Legolas.""Are you kidding?" Thomas said. "I'm obviously Legolas. You're . . ." He squinted thoughtfully at Sanya and then at Martin. "Wel…
Jim Butcher Changes
We'll never find that one, and I'll be blamed," announced Edd Tollett, the dour grey-haired squire everyone called Dolorous Edd. "Nothing ever goes missing that they don't look at me, ever since that time I lost my horse. As if that could be helped. He was white and it was snowing, what did they expected
George R.R. Martin
Dour music has its own beauty, for the song of ruin is most fertile.
Steven Erikson
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 279 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).