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austere
Synonyms and Antonyms of austere
- an austere conductor who is as tough on himself as he is on the orchestra
adamant, adamantine, callous, hardened, hard-hearted, hard-line, immovable, implacable, inflexible, merciless, ossified, pitiless, relentless, rock-ribbed, stiff, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unsparing, unyielding
ascetic (also ascetical), monastic, monkish
determined, firm, resolved, single-minded, steadfast, unflinching
- an austere fortress at the top of some formidable cliffs
bleak, cold, hostile, inhospitable, inimical, unfriendly, unsympathetic
adamant, bound, determined, firm, intent, purposeful, resolute, resolved, steadfast, unflinching
fixed, hard, hardened, hardheaded, immovable, implacable, inflexible, ironhanded, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, rigid, self-willed, set, stiff, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful (or wilful)
black, cheerless, dark, gloomy, glum, joyless, melancholic, moody, morose, sulky, sullen, surly
brooding, grave, humorless, melancholy, serious, sober, sobersided, solemn, somber (or sombre), staid, unsmiling, weighty
- for the private office of the CEO of the large corporation, the room is unexpectedly austere
Synonym Discussion of austere
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- severe military discipline
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- stern arbiters of public morality
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- living an austere life in the country
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- the ascetic life of the monks
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