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dourly

dourly adverb: in a dour manner.

Adverb

dourly (comparative more dourly, superlative most dourly)

  1. In a dour manner.
    • The housekeeper looked up over the top of her reading glasses a trifle dourly.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries

dourly meaning in Urdu

dourly in Urdu

dourly, moodily
اداسی سے udāsī se

Forms of dourly

comparativemore dourly
superlativemost dourly

Origin of dourly

From dour + -ly.

Questions about dourly

What does dourly mean?
Dourly means in a dour manner.
What is dourly in Urdu?
Dourly in Urdu is اداسی سے (udāsī se). See Dourly meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is dourly?
Dourly is an adverb.

Words near dourly in the dictionary

  1. dourah
  2. dourer
  3. dourest
  4. Dourges
  5. dourine
  6. dourly
  7. dourness
  8. dournesses
  9. Douro
  10. douroucouli
  11. douroucoulis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dourly (page history and authors); اداسی سے (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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