austere
adjective
- 1
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
- 2
of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect
an austere expression
a stern face
- 3
severely simple
a stark interior
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