Austere

Adjective

 * 1) Grim or severe in manner or appearance
 * 2) Lacking trivial decoration; not extravagant or gaudy

Adverbs for Austere
gravely; starkly; sombrely; monastically; harshly; puritanically; severely; rigorously; rigidly; uncompromisingly; inflexibly; unsparingly; arbitrarily; tyrannically; sternly; oddly; unfashionably; haughtily; soberly; odiously; unrnitigatedly; unbendingly; unrelentingly.

Synonyms for Austere

 * stern, strict, forbidding
 * simple, plain, unadorned, unembellished
 * rigid, rigorous, acrimonious, severe, harsh, cruel, unrelenting, sharp, exacting.

Antonyms for Austere

 * overwrought, flamboyant, extravagant, gaudy, flashy
 * mild, kind, gentle, meek.

Derived terms

 * austerity
 * austerely

Thesaurus
abstemious; abstinent; amaroidal; anchoritic; ascetic; astringent; authoritarian; bald; bare; basic; biting; bitter; bleak; candid; chaste; common; commonplace; demanding; direct; dour; dry; dull; dwarfed; dwarfish; earnest; elementary; eremitic; essential; exacting; exigent; exiguous; flagellant; frank; frugal; fundamental; grave; grim; hard; harsh; homely; homespun; homogeneous; impoverished; inclement; indivisible; inornate; irreducible; jejune; keen; lean; 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; 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; stark; starvation; stern; stingy; stinted; straightforward; straitened; strict; stringent; stunted; subsistence; thin; tough; unadorned; unaffected; uncluttered; undecorated; undifferenced; undifferentiated; unelaborate; unembellished; unfancy; unfussy; ungentle; uniform; unimaginative; unnourishing; unnutritious; unornamented; unornate; unpoetical; unsparing; unvarnished; watered; watery; wedded to poverty

Etymology
From, from austerus:, from  αὐστηρός:, having the specific meaning "making the tongue dry" (originally used of fruits, wines), related to αὔω:, αὖος:.

Pronunciation

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Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch: ,


 * Romanian: auster
 * Russian: строгий,
 * Spanish: severo


 * Bulgarian:, аскетичен
 * Dutch: ,


 * German: schlicht
 * Russian:, аскетичный
 * Spanish: austero

Adjective
austere