What is another word for austere?
964 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ɔːstˈi͡ə], [ ɔːstˈiə], [ ɔː_s_t_ˈiə]Table of Contents
Similar words for austere:- acrid (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- antisocial (adjective)
- ascetic (adjective)
- bald (adjective)
- bare (adjective)
- bleak (adjective)
- chaste (adjective)
- cheerless (adjective)
- continent (adjective)
- economical (adjective)
- frigid (adjective)
- grim (adjective)
- grim, barren (adjective)
- hard (adjective)
- harsh (adjective)
- monastic (adjective)
- onerous (adjective)
- passionless (adjective)
- pitiless (adjective)
- plain (adjective)
- primitive (adjective)
- prudish (adjective)
- pure (adjective)
- rigid (adjective)
- rigorous (adjective)
- rough (adjective)
- rustic (adjective)
- sarcastic (adjective)
- serious (adjective)
- severe (adjective)
- severe in manner (adjective)
- sharp (adjective)
- simple (adjective)
- sobersided (adjective)
- solemn (adjective)
- spartan (adjective)
- stark (adjective)
- stern (adjective)
- stiff (adjective)
- stingy (adjective)
- strict (adjective)
- temperate (adjective)
- unadorned (adjective)
- unmitigated (adjective)
- unperfected (adjective)
- vanilla (adjective)
- ascetical (noun)
- austere (noun)
- harsh (noun)
- plain (noun)
- other synonyms
- undecorated
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Austere:
adj.
•acrid (adjective) •all (adjective) •antisocial (adjective)- most hermitlike,
- more eremetic,
- un communicative,
- more reclusive,
- mis-anthropic,
- un-friendliest,
- un sociable,
- un-friendlier,
- most eremetic,
- anti social,
- most asocial,
- re served,
- un friendliest,
- more asocial,
- with-drawn,
- more hermitlike,
- solitary,
- re-tiring,
- mis anthropic,
- un friendlier,
- un-sociable,
- re-served,
- un-communicative,
- re-mote,
- with drawn,
- un-friendly,
- un friendly,
- re tiring.
- penitential,
- celibate,
- franciscan,
- trappist,
- dry,
- lenten,
- miserly,
- hermit-like,
- spartan,
- teetotaling,
- disciplined,
- repentant,
- stoic,
- parsimonious.
- out-rightest,
- out righter,
- out rightest,
- un embellished,
- out right,
- out-right,
- un-embellished,
- out-righter.
- more bulldozed,
- un populated,
- most scorched,
- more windswept,
- more blighted,
- more scorched,
- weather beaten,
- ex posed,
- de-solate,
- most deforested,
- un sheltered,
- stripped,
- most blighted,
- most unpopulated,
- de-forested,
- un-sheltered,
- de sert,
- more deforested,
- de solate,
- un-populated,
- most bulldozed,
- more unpopulated,
- de forested,
- de-sert,
- ex-posed,
- most windswept.
- most intemerate,
- un-sullied,
- un wed,
- un sullied,
- more intemerate,
- un defiled,
- more uncontaminated,
- un contaminated,
- un-contaminated,
- de-cent,
- Quieter,
- impotent,
- un-stained,
- quietest,
- un blemished,
- re fined,
- in-nocent,
- un stained,
- more monogamous,
- un-defiled,
- un-blemished,
- de cent,
- in-experienced,
- un affected,
- un-affected,
- in nocent,
- in experienced,
- re-fined,
- most monogamous,
- unwed,
- most uncontaminated,
- neater,
- un-wed.
- un-comfortable,
- sad,
- funereal,
- in dumps,
- drab,
- jarring,
- de-pressed,
- tenebrific,
- gloomy,
- draggier,
- mopey,
- most drearisome,
- draggiest,
- most dejecting,
- woebegone,
- un comfortable,
- more drearisome,
- in the dumps,
- mopier,
- more dejecting,
- de pressed,
- mopiest,
- somber.
- more coldshoulder,
- more cold shoulder,
- un approachable,
- more cold-shoulder,
- most cold-shoulder,
- un loving,
- more unloving,
- forbidding,
- in-different,
- un-bending,
- most cold shoulder,
- un-approachable,
- unapproachable,
- un-loving,
- un feeling,
- in different,
- cold hearted,
- un bending,
- most unloving,
- most coldshoulder.
- un-yielding,
- in exorable,
- splenetic,
- most foreboding,
- grisly,
- fore-boding,
- more scowling,
- in-exorable,
- fore boding,
- more splenetic,
- more foreboding,
- un yielding,
- most crabbed,
- un relenting,
- in-tractable,
- un-relenting,
- re-solute,
- most glowering,
- most scowling,
- re solute,
- more glowering,
- most splenetic,
- in tractable.
- hardshell,
- dis courteous,
- more hard nosed,
- most cussed,
- hard nosed,
- more cussed,
- un civil,
- un-gracious,
- hard-nosed,
- dis-courteous,
- un gracious,
- un-civil.
- more overtaxing,
- over-taxing,
- more embittering,
- over powering,
- most overtaxing,
- more headache,
- most embittering,
- over-powering,
- over taxing,
- more plodding,
- most headache,
- more crushing,
- most plodding,
- galling,
- most crushing.
- un-civilized,
- un-learned,
- most vestigial,
- most untutored,
- un trained,
- un cultured,
- untamed,
- un learned,
- un-cultured,
- more vestigial,
- un civilized,
- un-refined,
- un-developed,
- more brutish,
- non-literate,
- un cultivated,
- preliterate,
- most brutish,
- under developed,
- un tutored,
- un-tutored,
- most preliterate,
- more preliterate,
- most nonliterate,
- un-taught,
- most atavistic,
- un taught,
- un domesticated,
- pre literate,
- more atavistic,
- un-cultivated,
- non literate,
- more nonliterate,
- un-trained,
- more untutored,
- un-domesticated,
- un refined,
- un sophisticated,
- un tamed,
- under-developed,
- un-tamed,
- pre-literate.
- more simpering,
- most simpering,
- up tight,
- over modest,
- prudish,
- over exact,
- narrowminded,
- more overmodest,
- narrow minded,
- de mure,
- overnice,
- most overnice,
- over nice,
- over-exact,
- most overmodest,
- de-mure,
- most overexact,
- more overnice,
- up-tight,
- more overexact,
- overexact.
- spotless,
- undefiled,
- fundamental,
- formative,
- purebred,
- monolithic,
- angelic,
- nascent,
- unadulterated,
- decent,
- innocent,
- undiluted,
- unalloyed,
- basal,
- honorable,
- irreducible,
- aboriginal,
- elementary,
- white,
- sinless,
- virtuous,
- faultless,
- blameless,
- essential,
- untainted,
- elemental,
- pure,
- foundational,
- immaculate,
- atomic,
- stainless,
- guiltless,
- basic,
- untarnished,
- clear,
- unblemished,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- Simon-pure,
- unsullied,
- indivisible.
- in compliant,
- most chiseled,
- set stone,
- strait laced,
- in-flexible,
- un deviating,
- in-variable,
- more unpermissive,
- un permissive,
- de finite,
- more chiseled,
- unbreakable,
- in elastic,
- unpermissive,
- tough nut crack,
- more undeviating,
- un compromising,
- ex act,
- most unpermissive,
- un moving,
- in flexible,
- in-compliant,
- un breakable,
- un-moving,
- un-changing,
- in-elastic,
- un-alterable,
- un changing,
- un alterable,
- single minded,
- most undeviating,
- de-finite,
- in variable,
- un-deviating,
- un-permissive,
- ex-act,
- un-breakable,
- un-compromising.
- more snarling,
- more weisenheiming,
- most snarling,
- more chaffing,
- more needling,
- most chaffing,
- dis illusioned,
- smartalecky,
- most twitting,
- more taunting,
- more twitting,
- dis respectful,
- most needling,
- most taunting,
- most ironical,
- needling,
- most weisenheiming,
- dis-respectful,
- dis-illusioned.
- demanding,
- imperial,
- oppressive,
- sharp,
- keen,
- critical,
- cool,
- chilly,
- obstinate,
- acerbic,
- icy,
- censorious,
- uncompromising,
- hidebound,
- curt,
- piquant,
- cutting,
- frosty,
- short,
- blunt,
- intense,
- gruff,
- inflexible,
- crisp,
- brisk,
- effortful,
- abrupt,
- lean,
- intolerant,
- obdurate,
- authoritarian,
- acute,
- correct,
- tart,
- raw,
- astringent,
- stringent,
- relentless,
- caustic,
- precise,
- strait-laced,
- exacting,
- unbending,
- acrimonious,
- draconian,
- meticulous,
- brusque.
- direct,
- candid,
- uncombined,
- artless,
- refined,
- inelaborate,
- unblended,
- open and shut,
- uncomplicated,
- childlike,
- crystalline,
- not complex,
- folksy,
- uncompounded,
- unsophisticated,
- terse,
- unmixed.
- de-pressing,
- most unclothed,
- un-clothed,
- un clad,
- more unclothed,
- un covered,
- de pressing,
- un-draped,
- un clothed,
- more undraped,
- most undraped,
- un draped,
- un-clad.
- stiffnecked,
- hangtough,
- steelier,
- most hang-tough,
- hardheaded,
- dyed in the wool,
- more stiff-necked,
- more hang-tough,
- by book,
- more stiffnecked,
- more mortified,
- steeliest,
- most hang tough,
- most stiffnecked,
- more hangtough,
- stiff necked,
- most stiff-necked,
- most hangtough,
- most hardheaded,
- most stiff necked,
- more stiff necked,
- most mortified,
- more hang tough.
- in-ordinate,
- un-duest,
- un-relaxed,
- most unrelaxed,
- un easier,
- un duest,
- un conscionable,
- un-easiest,
- un-due,
- un gainlier,
- un graceful,
- un-natural,
- un gainly,
- un-conscionable,
- un relaxed,
- un gainliest,
- un-gainly,
- un-duer,
- un easiest,
- un-graceful,
- un due,
- un-easier,
- more unrelaxed,
- un easy.
- more ironfisted,
- most iron fisted,
- iron fisted,
- most iron-fisted,
- more stickling,
- most ironfisted,
- more iron-fisted,
- most stickling,
- more iron fisted.
n.
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- thrift,
- Economies,
- careful,
- economic,
- ungenerous.
Other synonyms:
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- gracious,
- outdoorsy,
- back-to-nature,
- rootless,
- hardline,
- societal,
- bohemian,
- tough love,
- sedentary,
- nomadic,
- rigor,
- unyielding,
- Hard-featured.
- inquisitorial,
- prosaic,
- dictatorial,
- Prosing,
- entice,
- mannered,
- withdrawn,
- standoffish,
- dreary,
- flagellant,
- frank,
- positive,
- ramrod,
- racking,
- ungentle,
- infertile,
- scanty,
- gravely,
- Stinted,
- slender,
- savage,
- slight,
- irritating,
- heavy-handed,
- open,
- common,
- frigid,
- searching,
- classic,
- unfeeling,
- hard-line,
- stuffy,
- rigidly,
- churlish,
- homespun,
- resolute,
- unvarnished,
- austerely,
- extortionate,
- po-faced,
- painful,
- mere,
- venturous,
- malevolent,
- subdued,
- thick-skinned,
- exiguous,
- satiric,
- puny,
- hardy,
- stunted,
- taxing,
- saturnine,
- despotic,
- inexorable,
- drear,
- disapproving,
- leafless,
- comfortless,
- unaffected,
- immovable,
- morose,
- sour,
- frowning,
- bluff,
- reserved,
- proper,
- devastating,
- inaccessible,
- unpretentious,
- withering,
- punitive,
- call,
- pietistic,
- mortified,
- autocratic,
- teetotal,
- vacant,
- poor,
- scant,
- cold,
- not level,
- undifferenced,
- Plain-spoken,
- plain-speaking,
- scrawny,
- stilted,
- ravaged,
- unostentatious,
- minimal,
- Cold-hearted,
- cruel,
- sabbatarian,
- bigoted,
- rugged,
- roughly,
- draw,
- incomplete,
- narrow,
- uncompassionate,
- crucial,
- barren,
- aloof,
- ungainly,
- impoverished,
- tyrannical,
- formal,
- haughty,
- sombre,
- starkly,
- wooden,
- prim,
- punishing,
- subsistence,
- penny-wise,
- paltry,
- Inaffable,
- writer,
- unsmiling,
- commonplace,
- pompous,
- empty,
- joyless,
- harshly,
- natural,
- arbitrary,
- straitened,
- seriously,
- spooky,
- entrap,
- unsafe,
- cynical,
- unaccommodating,
- humourless,
- steadfast,
- crabbed,
- Uncomplaisant,
- anchoritic,
- snooty,
- thin,
- lowering,
- exigent,
- ruthless,
- grinding,
- niggardly,
- puritan,
- bewitch,
- prosy,
- not smooth,
- fastidious,
- scrimp,
- remote,
- skimpy,
- coax,
- stubborn,
- pure and simple,
- rigorously,
- unfancy,
- coercive,
- mendicant,
- unassuming,
- ungallant,
- snobbish,
- undecorated,
- agonizing,
- wheedle,
- dismal,
- unneighborly,
- colourless,
- unsympathetic,
- bad,
- undifferentiated,
- Precisian,
- dispiriting,
- firm,
- starvation,
- eremitic,
- lugubrious,
- controlled,
- small,
- peremptory,
- unforgiving,
- earnest,
- calamitous,
- abusive,
- unmoved,
- bearish,
- unpleasant,
- boorish,
- tense,
- binding,
- repulsive,
- absolute,
- unpoetical,
- depressing,
- callous,
- curmudgeonly,
- brutal,
- narrow-minded,
- Hard-shell,
- unornate,
- forced,
- grimly,
- intimidating,
- slim,
- unremitting,
- bitter,
- unelaborate,
- uncharitable,
- life-threatening,
- cold-blooded,
- puritanic,
- unimaginative,
- Unnutritious,
- acid,
- impervious,
- self-disciplined,
- adamant,
- merciless,
- watery,
- naked,
- scratchy,
- rigourous,
- crude,
- unrelenting,
- sternly,
- dark,
- determined,
- uptight,
- inhospitable,
- bleakly,
- stony,
- skimp,
- dull,
- jejune,
- restrictive,
- of a piece,
- glowering,
- sparse,
- unkind,
- invite,
- neat,
- grievous,
- uniform,
- inclement,
- Unembroidered,
- strictly,
- matter of fact,
- straightforward,
- imperative,
- ceremonious,
- beastly,
- unperfected,
- distant,
- dangerous,
- Hard-hearted,
- inhuman,
- unrelaxed,
- distressing,
- beguile,
- cavalier,
- painstaking,
- ragged,
- unappeasable,
- unfussy,
- tough,
- homogeneous,
- dwarfish,
- disheartening,
- unfriendly,
- disastrous,
- persuade,
- adamantine,
- desolate,
- arrogant,
- captivate,
- flinty,
- Stony-hearted,
- stoical,
- watered,
- coarse,
- grey,
- moralistic,
- sobersided,
- Hard-headed,
- iron-handed,
- inveigle,
- limited,
- stinging,
- Dwarfed,
- piercing,
- severely,
- homely,
- difficult,
- hardly,
- scrimpy,
- straightlaced,
- biting,
- amaroidal,
- terrible,
- honest,
- unemotional,
- single,
- flush,
- stringently.
Paraphrases for Austere:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
strict.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Other Related
Antonyms for Austere:
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adj.
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refraining; abstinent
excited.
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severe in manner
indulgent, spending, luxurious, extravagant, encouraging, calm.
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Other antonyms:
harebrained, yielding, flexible, quiet, bright, affable, compliant, meek, elaborate, clement, charitable, soothing, light-headed, merciful, kind, responsive, mild, easy, sweet, willing, merry, compromising, benign, silly, mirthful, happy, complaisant, amenable, softhearted, scatterbrained, frivolous, lax, genial, bland, pliant, playful, pleasing, tranquil, mellow, forbearing, gentle, adorned, accepting, gluttonous, tractable, sunny, giddy, inviting, flighty, tolerant, tender, benignant, laid-back, lenient, pliable, acquiescent, goofy, undemanding, soft, featherbrained, cheerful, agreeable, decorated, patient, lighthearted, glad, easygoing.
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refraining; abstinent
