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Exact Match:

austere

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

severely simple; "a stark interior"

Synonyms:

• Albigensian,
• Catharist,
• Franciscan,
• Lenten,
• Sabbatarian,
• Spartan,
• Spartanic,
• Trappist,
• Waldensian,
• 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