dourとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Scots dour, from Latin dūrus (“hard, stern”), possibly via Middle Irish dúr. Compare French dur, German Dauer, Italian duro, Portuguese duro, Romanian dur, Spanish duro. Doublet of dure.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈdʊə/, /ˈdaʊə/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdʊɹ/, /ˈdaʊɚ/, /ˈdaʊ.ɚ/
  • 韻: -aʊə(ɹ), -ʊə(ɹ)
  • 異形同音異義語: Daur, doer, door, dower (depending on speaker)

形容詞

dour (comparative dourer または more dour, superlative dourest または most dour)

1. Stern, harsh and forbidding.
   • 1961 October, “Editorial: The importance of the "Roadrailer"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 577:

     The principal reason is that, in competition with modern road vehicles running over motorways, B.R. has a dour struggle to match the performance of its rivals cost-wise.

   • 2017, Rutger Bregman, chapter 6, in Elizabeth Manton, transl., Utopia for Realists, Kindle edition, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 149:

     I was reminded of the dour priests and salesmen of the nineteenth century who believed that the plebs wouldn’t be able to handle getting the vote, or a decent wage, or, least of all, leisure, and who backed the seventy-hour workweek as an efficacious instrument in the fight against liquor.

2. Unyielding and obstinate.
3. Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy.

同意語

• (stern, harsh): forbidding, harsh, severe, stern
• (unyielding): obstinate, stubborn, unyielding
• (expressing gloom): dejected, gloomy, melancholic, sullen

派生語

• dourly
• dourness

アナグラム

• doru, ordu