• adj.
    ⦿harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
    lexical concept
  • 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

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:dour
  2. enl:forbidding
  3. enl:grim
wn:interlingual indexili:i9901

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labeldourforbiddinggrim