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austere 音標拼音: [ɔst'ɪr] a. 嚴峻的,簡樸的 嚴峻的,簡樸的 austere adj 1: severely simple; " a stark interior" [ synonym: { austere}, { severe}, { stark}, { stern}] 2: of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; " an austere expression"; " a stern face" [ synonym: { austere}, { stern}] 3: 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" [ synonym: { ascetic}, { ascetical}, { austere}, { spartan}] Austere \ Aus* tere"\, [ F. aust[` e] re, L. austerus, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to parch, dry. Cf. { Sear}.] 1. Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life. [ 1913 Webster] From whom the austere Etrurian virtue rose. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Unadorned; unembellished; severely simple. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Harsh; sour; rough; rigid; stern; severe; rigorous; strict. [ 1913 Webster] 153 Moby Thesaurus words for " austere": Albigensian, Catharist, Franciscan, Lenten, Sabbatarian, Spartan, Spartanic, Trappist, Waldensian, abstemious, abstinent, amaroidal, anchoritic, ascetic, astringent, authoritarian, bald, bare, basic, biting, bitter, bleak, candid, chaste, common, commonplace, demanding, direct, dour, dry, dull, dwarfed, dwarfish, earnest, elementary, eremitic, essential, exacting, exigent, exiguous, flagellant, frank, frugal, fundamental, grave, grim, hard, harsh, homely, homespun, homogeneous, impoverished, inclement, indivisible, inornate, irreducible, jejune, keen, lean, limited, matter- of- fact, meager, mean, mendicant, mere, meticulous, miserly, monolithic, mortified, narrow, natural, neat, niggardly, of a piece, open, paltry, parsimonious, plain, plain- speaking, plain- spoken, poor, primal, primary, prosaic, prosing, prosy, puny, pure, pure and simple, puritanical, rigoristic, rough, rugged, rustic, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, self- denying, serious, severe, sharp, simon- pure, simple, simple- speaking, single, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, sober, somber, spare, sparing, stark, starvation, stern, stingy, stinted, straightforward, straitened, strict, stringent, stunted, subsistence, thin, tough, unadorned, unaffected, uncluttered, undecorated, undifferenced, undifferentiated, unelaborate, unembellished, unfancy, unfussy, ungentle, uniform, unimaginative, unnourishing, unnutritious, unornamented, unornate, unpoetical, unsparing, unvarnished, watered, watery, wedded to poverty
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