The Clue
More sullen (6 letter answer)
The Answer
DOURER
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Notes
The answer DOURER is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Related Clues
More gloomy
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"