strict; rigid; ascetic; modest
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Austere Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
Unadorned; unembellished; severely simple.
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. Aboutaustere
\aus*tere"\ (&?;), [f. austère, l. austerus, fr. gr. &?;, fr. &?; to parch, dry. cf. sear.]
1. sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.
2. severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life. from whom the austere etrurian virtue rose.
3. unadorned; unembellished; severely simple.
Severely simple; unadorned.
Cystig = a. severe, austere, harsh
Durfing = a. dense; austere
Adjective
1. severely simple; "a stark interior"
(synonym) severe, stark
(similar) plain
2. of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"
(synonym) stern
(similar) nonindulgent
3. practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"
(synonym) ascetic, ascetical, spartan
(similar) abstemious
Austere Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Austerity is when a national government reduces its spending to pay back creditors.
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