austere Synonyms

stern severe strict rigorous ascetical forbidding unembellished unadorned stark spartan simple plain harsh ascetic rigid serious leafless straitlaced stiff straightlaced stinted strait-laced tight-laced stringency stringent suppressive temperate anchoritic starchy unhewn unprovocative rough roughhewn rugged sabbatarian seedless self-denying self-sacrificing sobersided unpatterned unnourished sober sour tenebrific thrifty tough buttoned-up scrimpy niminy-piminy moralistic