Austere
Related Definitions
[adj] 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"
[adj] of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"
[adj] severely simple; "a stark interior"
Related Terms
abstemious, abstinent, Albigensian, amaroidal, anchoritic, ascetic, astringent, authoritarian, bald, bare, basic, biting, bitter, bleak, candid, Catharist, chaste, common, commonplace, demanding, direct, dour, dry, dull, dwarfed, dwarfish, earnest, elemen