dour

Adjective
  1. Stubbornly unyielding (synset 302335561)
    "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"; "men tenacious of opinion"
    similar to: obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate - tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
    same as: dogged, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding
  2. Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance (synset 301808137)
    "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"
    similar to: unpleasant - offensive or disagreeable; causing discomfort or unhappiness
    same as: forbidding, grim
  3. Showing a brooding ill humor (synset 301140878)
    "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"; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
    similar to: ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition
    same as: dark, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen

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