Modifies a noun

• encounter: Tuesday, January 3. 2006 Posted by AFS Staff at 00:00 A relatively dour encounter ends goalless.

• struggle: The home side were never really in contention and their innings drifted into a dour struggle for a draw.

• affair: From that moment on the game turned into a dour affair, with neither team taking the initiative.

• draw: A dour draw is our best bet I'd say.

• game: I saw West Ham at Sheffield Wednesday, that was a very dour game.

• man: Our waiter is a dour young man who displays all the symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: In front of our forge was a small steam hammer worked by a rather dour individual.

• very: But Carlisle are very dour but that's my team so.. .

• pretty: And as I've already said, without the tongue-in-cheek performances of the original, the characters seem pretty dour here.

• somewhat: Chancellor Brown a tax fixated, somewhat dour, middle-aged man has shown himself in a surprising light.

• slightly: There's also great support from Deddie Davies as the down-to-earth Farmer's wife and the slightly dour Anthony Pedley as Farmer Hogget.

• delightfully: Their delightfully dour little pop songs do touch on the melancholic side of things, but the lyrics are wonderfully slice-of-life descriptions.

Used with adjective complement

• look: On base models, the mix of black and gray plastics looks dour.