The Clue
Far from perky (4 letter answer)
The Answer
DOUR
Tags
Notes
The answer DOUR is common and appears about once every 300 puzzles.
Related Clues
Forbidding
Gloomy
Glum
Grim
Grumpy
Harsh
Moody
Saturnine
Sullen
Unsmiling
Forbidding, as an expression
Ill-humored
Stern and gloomy
Stern, to Scotty
Sullen; unsmiling
Definition
DOUR as an adjective:
1. (dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding) = 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"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"
2. (dour, forbidding, grim) = 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"- J.M.Barrie
3. (dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, 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"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"