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adjective severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding: an austere teacher.
rigorously self-disciplined and severely moral; ascetic; abstinent: the austere quality of life in the convent.
grave; sober; solemn; serious: an austere manner.
without excess, luxury, or ease; simple; limited; severe: an austere life.
severely simple; without ornament: austere writing.
lacking softness; hard: an austere bed of straw.
rough to the taste; sour or harsh in flavor.
SEE MORE SEE LESS Origin of austere 1300–50; Middle English (<Anglo-French ) <Latin austērus <Greek austērós harsh, rough, bitter
ANTONYMS FOR austere 4 luxurious, comfortable, lush; sybaritic.
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synonym study for austere 4 . Austere, bleak, spartan, stark all suggest lack of ornament or adornment and of a feeling of comfort or warmth. Austere usually implies a purposeful avoidance of luxury or ease: simple, stripped-down, austere surroundings. Bleak adds a sense of forbidding coldness, hopelessness, depression: a bleak, dreary, windswept plain. Spartan, somewhat more forceful than austere, implies stern discipline and rigorous, even harsh, avoidance of all that is not strictly functional: a life of Spartan simplicity. Stark shares with bleak a sense of grimness and desolation: the stark cliff face.
OTHER WORDS FROM austere aus·tere·ly, adverb aus·tere·ness, noun un·aus·tere, adjective un·aus·tere·ly, adverb Words nearby austere austenitic, austenitic stainless steel, austenitize, Austen, Jane, Auster, austere , austerity, Austerlitz, Austin, Austin Flint murmur, Austin friar
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The designs were meant to be “stark” and “austere ,” the designers said, and there were no straight seams in the creations.
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"I have done with you, Herbert Jameson," he said, with austere dignity.
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The morning after the incident between Lawrence and Claire there had been an austere reserve in the cabin.
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And though Holbein knew the pinch of narrow means, he had no lack of good cheer as well as austere food in his art.
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Languedoc is the country of the latter luxury; and Languedoc is in the south of France—aptly termed 'the austere south.'
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They both smiled at the thought of the austere Carrie in the midst of those rosy cushions, and hangings, and lamps.
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British Dictionary definitions for austere adjective stern or severe in attitude or manner an austere schoolmaster
grave, sober, or serious an austere expression
self-disciplined, abstemious, or ascetic an austere life
severely simple or plain an austere design
Derived forms of austere austerely , adverb austereness , noun Word Origin for austere C14: from Old French austère, from Latin austērus sour, from Greek austēros astringent; related to Greek hauein to dry
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