- severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding: an austere teacher.
- rigorously self-disciplined and severely moral; ascetic; abstinent: the austere quality of life in the convent.
- grave; sober; solemn; serious: an austere manner.
- without excess, luxury, or ease; simple; limited; severe: an austere life.
- severely simple; without ornament: austere writing.
- rough to the taste; sour or harsh in flavor.
- stern or severe in attitude or manner
- grave, sober, or serious
- self-disciplined, abstemious, or ascetic
- severely simple or plain
