1. Severely simple
   - severe, stark, stern 
2. Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanour; forbidding in aspect
   "an austere expression"
   - stern 
3. Practising great self-denial
   "a desert nomad's austere life"
   - ascetic, ascetical, spartan

Derived forms: austerer, austerest

See also: abstemious, austerely, austereness, austerity, nonindulgent, plain, strict

Encyclopedia: Austere

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