Difference between Dour and Forbidding

What is the difference between Dour and Forbidding?

Dour as an adjective is stern, harsh and forbidding while Forbidding as an adjective is highly unpleasant or disagreeable

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: stern, harsh and forbidding gloomy and sullenly unhappy unyielding and obstinate

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: highly unpleasant or disagreeablethreatening or menacing

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To disallow; to proscribe.

We hope you now know whether to use Dour or Forbidding in your sentence.