austere Definition

spartan, ascetic, abstemious, stark, ascetical, stern, plain, severe, nonindulgent, rustic, rigid, harsh, strict, frugal, drab, bleak, stoic, grim, primitive, radical, joyless, sober, rugged, stringent, hardline, rigorous, tight, tough, difficult, rudimentary, simple, crude, hard-line, low-tech, minimalist, dour, uncompromising, unadorned, monkish, puritanical, somber, sombre, staid, contemplative, unforgiving, genteel, serene, monastic, decorous, unpretentious, taciturn, dreary, ostentatious, stately, oppressive, opulent, unostentatious, evocative, elegant, ornate, decadent, unornamented, idiosyncratic, regimented, unsentimental, puritan, modernistic, urbane, ethereal, aristocratic, courtly, stuffy, unexpressive, unmilitary, idealized, earthy, baroque, comfortless, melancholic, rococo, roughhewn, saturnine, primitivist, luxuriant, funereal, florid, elegiac, indulgent, extravagant, baronial, gothic, hieratic, uncongenial, reverent, eccentric, prisonlike, unshowy, sybaritic, unprepossessing, lush,