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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Spartan, Spartanic, adamant, adamantine, astringent, austere, authoritarian, beetle-browed, black, black-browed, bleak, cast-iron, cheerless, cold, crabbed, dark, dejected, demanding, dismal, dreary, dumpish, exacting, exigent, firm, flinty, forbidding, frowning, fundamentalist, gloomy, glowering, glum, grim, grum, hard, hard-core, hard-nosed, hardy, harsh, hidebound, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable, inclement, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, intransigent, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, irreconcilable, lowering, melancholy, meticulous, moodish, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, mumpish, muscle-bound, obdurate, obstinate, orthodox, procrustean, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, relentless, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rock-ribbed, rockbound, rough, rugged, saturnine, scowling, severe, sour, steely, stern, stiff, straightlaced, straitlaced, strict, stringent, stubborn, sulky, sullen, surly, tough, ugly, unaffected, unalterable, unbending, unchangeable, uncompromising, unfriendly, ungentle, ungiving, unmoved, unrelenting, unsparing, unyielding
Dictionary Results for dour:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
dour
    adj 1: 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" [syn: dogged, dour, persistent,
           pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding]
    2: harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "a
       dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim
       man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the
       grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie [syn:
       dour, forbidding, grim]
    3: 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"; "a sullen crowd" [syn: dark,
       dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine,
       sour, sullen]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dour \Dour\, a. [Cf. F. dur, L. durus.]
   Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.
   [Scot.]
   [1913 Webster]

         A dour wife, a sour old carlin.          --C. Reade.
   [1913 Webster] Doura

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