Far from cheerful
The crossword clue "Far from cheerful" is answered by DOUR, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DOUR
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DOUR answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for DOUR
Every other clue in this collection answered by DOUR, most used first.
- Gloomy - used 128 times, most recently in 2026
- Sullen - used 76 times, most recently in 2025
- Ill-humored - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
- Forbidding - used 15 times, most recently in 2015
- Glum - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
- Saturnine - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Silently ill-humored - used 11 times, most recently in 2009
- Morose - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Relentlessly gloomy - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Unsmiling - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Grumpy - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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- Away from the wind - ALEE, used 282 times
- From square one - ANEW, used 181 times
- From scratch - ANEW, used 138 times
- "Take ___ from me" - ATIP, used 126 times
- From a distance - AFAR, used 117 times
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