Dour vs. Sullen — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Dour and Sullen
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Dour
Dour is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 16,810 inhabitants.
Sullen
Bad-tempered and sulky
A sullen pout
Dour
Marked by sternness or harshness; forbidding
A dour, self-sacrificing life.
Sullen
A sulky or depressed mood.
Dour
Silently ill-humored; gloomy
The proverbially dour New England Puritan.
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Sullen
Showing a brooding ill humor or silent resentment; morose or sulky.
Dour
Sternly obstinate; unyielding
A dour determination.
Sullen
Gloomy or somber in tone, color, or portent
Sullen, gray skies.
Dour
Stern, harsh and forbidding.
Sullen
Sluggish; slow
The sullen current of a canal.
Dour
Unyielding and obstinate.
Sullen
Having a brooding ill temper; sulky.
Dour
Expressing gloom or melancholy.
Sullen
Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.
A sullen atmosphere
Dour
Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.
A dour wife, a sour old carlin.
Sullen
Sluggish; slow.
Dour
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
Men tenacious of opinion
Sullen
(obsolete) Lonely; solitary; desolate.
Dour
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
Sullen
(obsolete) Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
Dour
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
A sour temper
A sullen crowd
Sullen
(obsolete) Obstinate; intractable.
Sullen
(obsolete) One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.
Sullen
Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness.
Sullen
Lonely; solitary; desolate.
Sullen
Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.
Solemn hymns so sullen dirges change.
Sullen
Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
Such sullen planets at my birth did shine.
Sullen
Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose.
And sullen I forsook the imperfect feast.
Sullen
Obstinate; intractable.
Things are as sullen as we are.
Sullen
Heavy; dull; sluggish.
No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows;The dreaded east is all the wind that blows.
Sullen
One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.
Sullen
Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to have the sullens.
Sullen
To make sullen or sluggish.
Sullens the whole body with . . . laziness.
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
A sour temper
A sullen crowd
Sullen
Darkened by clouds;
A heavy sky
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