Adjective: dure
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more dure |
| Superlative | most dure |
Sample Sentences
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The winter is severe, and life is dure and rude. [1861, William Howard Russell, Leicester Chronicle:]
Adjectives inflected like dure
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin dūrus. Doublet of dour. See: Latin Adjectives '
dūrus'.