About The Word Austere
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Austere
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What's The Definition Of Austere?
[adj] practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"
[adj] of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face" [adj] severely simple; "a stark interior" Synonyms | Synonyms for Austere: abstemious | ascetic | ascetical | nonindulgent | plain | severe | spartan | stark | stern Related Terms | Find terms related to Austere: abstemious | abstinent | Albigensian | amaroidal | anchoritic | ascetic | astringent | authoritarian | bald | bare | basic | biting | bitter | bleak | candid | Catharist | chaste | common | commonplace | demanding | direct | dour | dry | dull | dwarfed | dwarfish | earnest | elementary | eremitic | essential | exacting | exigent | exiguous | flagellant | Franciscan | frank | frugal | fundamental | grave | grim | hard | harsh | homely | homespun | homogeneous | impoverished | inclement | indivisible | inornate | irreducible | jejune | keen | lean | Lenten | limited | matter-of-fact | meager | mean | mendicant | mere | meticulous | miserly | monolithic | mortified | narrow | natural | neat | niggardly | of a piece | open | paltry | parsimonious | plain | plain-speaking | plain-spoken | poor | primal | primary | prosaic | prosing | prosy | puny | pure | pure and simple | puritanical | rigoristic | rough | rugged | rustic | Sabbatarian | scant | scanty | scrawny | scrimp | scrimpy | self-denying | serious | severe | sharp | simon-pure | simple | simple-speaking | single | skimp | skimpy | slender | slight | slim | small | sober | somber | spare | sparing | Spartan | Spartanic | stark | starvation | stern | stingy | stinted | straightforward | straitened | strict | stringent | stunted | subsistence | thin | tough | Trappist | unadorned | unaffected | uncluttered | undecorated | undifferenced | undifferentiated | unelaborate | unembellished | unfancy | unfussy | ungentle | uniform | unimaginative | unnourishing | unnutritious | unornamented | unornate | unpoetical | unsparing | unvarnished | Waldensian | watered | watery | wedded to poverty See Also | Austere In Webster's Dictionary \Aus*tere"\, [F. aust[`e]re, L. austerus, fr. Gr. ?, fr.
? to parch, dry. Cf. {Sear}.]
1. Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity;
as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.
2. Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid;
rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life.
From whom the austere Etrurian virtue rose.
--Dryden.
3. Unadorned; unembellished; severely simple.
Syn: Harsh; sour; rough; rigid; stern; severe; rigorous;
strict.
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