definition of
dour

[1] #1 dour s. [dogged, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding] 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". wn

[2] #2 dour s. [dark, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen] 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. wn