Adjective austere has 3 senses
- austere, severe, stark - severely simple; "a stark interior"
Antonym: fancy (indirect, via plain)
- austere, stern - of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"
Antonym: indulgent (indirect, via nonindulgent)
- ascetic, ascetical, austere, spartan - 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"
Antonym: gluttonous (indirect, via abstemious)
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