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 .
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to parch ,
dry .
Cf . {
Sear }.]
1 .
Sour and astringent ;
rough to the state ;
having acerbity ;
as ,
an austere crab apple ;
austere wine .
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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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