austere

Speech parts

1. austere - Adjective

3. austere - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.

Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life.

Unadorned; unembellished; severely simple.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

stern severe strict spartan simple stark plain harsh rigid rigorous ascetic forbidding unadorned unembellished ascetical
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Antonyms

extravagant flamboyant rococo baroque laden epicurean
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Phrases with the word

austere man austere cut austere monk austere practitioner austere room austere garment

Examples

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. Ambrose Bierce

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so also can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular. Eric Temple Bell

If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality. Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful. Frederick Soddy

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists. Havelock Ellis

Here numerous persons, with big wigs many of them, and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science, start up in an agitated vehement manner: but the Premier resolutely beckons them down again. Thomas Carlyle

Close letter words and terms

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