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austere

/ɔ'stir/

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adjective
of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect
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"an austere expression"

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stern nonindulgent strict
adjective
severely simple
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severe stark stern plain
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practicing great self-denial
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"a desert nomad's austere life"

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ascetic ascetical spartan abstemious

Definition that contains austere

beguine (Roman Catholic Church) a member of a lay sisterhood (one of several founded in the Netherlands in the 12th and 13th centuries); though not taking religious vows the sisters followed an austere life
austerely in an austere fashion
hair-shirt self-sacrificing or austere
hair-shirted self-sacrificing or austere
carthusian order an austere contemplative Roman Catholic order founded by St. Bruno in 1084