Definition for Austere:

• of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; " an austere expression"; " a stern face"

Synonyms for Austere:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • stern,
  • severe.
  •ascetic (adjective)
  • penitential,
  • celibate,
  • franciscan,
  • trappist,
  • dry,
  • lenten,
  • miserly,
  • hermit-like,
  • spartan,
  • teetotaling,
  • disciplined,
  • repentant,
  • stoic,
  • parsimonious.
  •continent (adjective)
  • abstentious.
  •economical (adjective)
  • cheeseparing,
  • sparing,
  • economical,
  • stingy,
  • moderate,
  • cheap,
  • thrifty,
  • self-denying,
  • frugal,
  • prudent.
  •grim, barren (adjective)
  • unembellished,
  • dour,
  • unadorned,
  • bare-bones,
  • primitive,
  • spare,
  • clean.
  •hard (adjective)
  • unsparing.
  •pure (adjective)
  • 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.
  •severe (adjective)
  • demanding,
  • inflexible,
  • piquant,
  • sharp,
  • lean,
  • critical,
  • cool,
  • chilly,
  • oppressive,
  • acerbic,
  • imperial,
  • censorious,
  • uncompromising,
  • icy,
  • curt,
  • precise,
  • cutting,
  • gruff,
  • short,
  • blunt,
  • intolerant,
  • hidebound,
  • intense,
  • crisp,
  • brisk,
  • exacting,
  • abrupt,
  • meticulous,
  • keen,
  • obstinate,
  • authoritarian,
  • acute,
  • correct,
  • tart,
  • raw,
  • astringent,
  • stringent,
  • relentless,
  • caustic,
  • prudish,
  • strait-laced,
  • frosty,
  • unbending,
  • acrimonious,
  • draconian,
  • obdurate,
  • brusque.
  •severe in manner (adjective)
  • sober.
  •simple (adjective)
  • crystalline,
  • refined,
  • artless,
  • terse,
  • direct,
  • uncomplicated,
  • childlike,
  • unsophisticated,
  • candid.
  •stingy (adjective)
  • tight,
  • meager,
  • mean,
  • Hard-fisted,
  • closefisted,
  • penny-pinching,
  • narrow-fisted,
  • petty.
  •temperate (adjective)
  • Abnegating,
  • self-depriving,
  • Sober-minded,
  • temperate,
  • restrained,
  • conservative.

• n.

  •
  • fast.
  •austere (noun)
  • nonindulgent,
  • ascetical.
  •harsh (noun)
  • modest.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • unyielding,
  • back-to-nature,
  • Hard-featured,
  • rootless,
  • hardline,
  • gracious.
  •
  • enclosed,
  • new age,
  • suburban.
  •
  • settled.
  •
  • social,
  • iron.
  •Other relevant words:
  • heavy-handed,
  • stunted,
  • intimidating,
  • piercing,
  • distressing,
  • rigorously,
  • draw,
  • inveigle,
  • steadfast,
  • difficult,
  • stinging,
  • prosaic,
  • beguile,
  • desolate,
  • slender,
  • eremitic,
  • pompous,
  • formal,
  • bearish,
  • stuffy,
  • unmoved,
  • slim,
  • inquisitorial,
  • grey,
  • puny,
  • agonizing,
  • call,
  • unfussy,
  • flush,
  • disastrous,
  • peremptory,
  • dwarfish,
  • homogeneous,
  • standoffish,
  • racking,
  • punishing,
  • austerely,
  • devastating,
  • unpleasant,
  • po-faced,
  • earnest,
  • disapproving,
  • dictatorial,
  • gravely,
  • Stony-hearted,
  • calamitous,
  • drear,
  • puritan,
  • rugged,
  • inclement,
  • coarse,
  • unpoetical,
  • not smooth,
  • thin,
  • penny-wise,
  • undecorated,
  • terrible,
  • frowning,
  • Precisian,
  • watery,
  • abusive,
  • open,
  • infertile,
  • flagellant,
  • somber,
  • stringently,
  • arbitrary,
  • firm,
  • unfriendly,
  • rigourous,
  • frank,
  • Hard-hearted,
  • unimaginative,
  • subsistence,
  • acid,
  • homely,
  • scrimp,
  • mannered,
  • fastidious,
  • haughty,
  • painful,
  • wooden,
  • aloof,
  • unsafe,
  • saturnine,
  • reserved,
  • uncompassionate,
  • Hard-headed,
  • ravaged,
  • unneighborly,
  • dark,
  • invite,
  • classic,
  • sombre,
  • impoverished,
  • searching,
  • unelaborate,
  • Unembroidered,
  • seriously,
  • undifferentiated,
  • crude,
  • despotic,
  • dispiriting,
  • cynical,
  • persuade,
  • withdrawn,
  • snobbish,
  • natural,
  • cold,
  • undifferenced,
  • vacant,
  • pure and simple,
  • forced,
  • prim,
  • determined,
  • stubborn,
  • ungallant,
  • roughly,
  • depressing,
  • pietistic,
  • ungainly,
  • beastly,
  • skimp,
  • drab,
  • unemotional,
  • unrelaxed,
  • self-disciplined,
  • skimpy,
  • sour,
  • scrimpy,
  • Cold-hearted,
  • mortified,
  • rigidly,
  • adamantine,
  • homespun,
  • positive,
  • subdued,
  • snooty,
  • entrap,
  • honest,
  • writer,
  • arrogant,
  • prosy,
  • autocratic,
  • impervious,
  • remote,
  • amaroidal,
  • anchoritic,
  • minimal,
  • dismal,
  • cruel,
  • unaccommodating,
  • adamant,
  • grimly,
  • sobersided,
  • unassuming,
  • distant,
  • biting,
  • small,
  • flinty,
  • narrow-minded,
  • crucial,
  • malevolent,
  • unpretentious,
  • cold-blooded,
  • cavalier,
  • matter of fact,
  • gloomy,
  • commonplace,
  • of a piece,
  • Prosing,
  • moralistic,
  • inexorable,
  • ramrod,
  • resolute,
  • watered,
  • Unnutritious,
  • uncharitable,
  • grinding,
  • unremitting,
  • scant,
  • absolute,
  • churlish,
  • straightforward,
  • strictly,
  • lowering,
  • grievous,
  • naked,
  • hardly,
  • Inaffable,
  • not level,
  • straightlaced,
  • exiguous,
  • inhospitable,
  • brutal,
  • unfeeling,
  • taxing,
  • sternly,
  • incomplete,
  • unaffected,
  • hard-nosed,
  • wheedle,
  • uptight,
  • paltry,
  • plain-speaking,
  • hard-line,
  • lugubrious,
  • unapproachable,
  • hardy,
  • controlled,
  • mere,
  • life-threatening,
  • common,
  • frigid,
  • stilted,
  • starkly,
  • tense,
  • dull,
  • exigent,
  • unornate,
  • teetotal,
  • unostentatious,
  • unsmiling,
  • dreary,
  • unvarnished,
  • irritating,
  • repulsive,
  • forbidding,
  • Uncomplaisant,
  • unrelenting,
  • niggardly,
  • Hard-shell,
  • empty,
  • merciless,
  • proper,
  • coercive,
  • bitter,
  • unappeasable,
  • ruthless,
  • barren,
  • punitive,
  • inaccessible,
  • tyrannical,
  • bleakly,
  • humourless,
  • ceremonious,
  • puritanic,
  • harshly,
  • unkind,
  • scanty,
  • immovable,
  • uniform,
  • thick-skinned,
  • comfortless,
  • callous,
  • imperative,
  • slight,
  • Stinted,
  • leafless,
  • single,
  • joyless,
  • unsympathetic,
  • restrictive,
  • narrow,
  • morose,
  • ragged,
  • stony,
  • ungentle,
  • stoical,
  • starvation,
  • neat,
  • binding,
  • glowering,
  • bewitch,
  • unforgiving,
  • venturous,
  • straitened,
  • unfancy,
  • Plain-spoken,
  • captivate,
  • painstaking,
  • entice,
  • withering,
  • sparse,
  • iron-handed,
  • spooky,
  • sabbatarian,
  • poor,
  • extortionate,
  • scratchy,
  • bigoted,
  • colourless,
  • boorish,
  • jejune,
  • crabbed,
  • tough,
  • savage,
  • severely,
  • scrawny,
  • limited,
  • inhuman,
  • satiric,
  • disheartening,
  • dangerous,
  • coax,
  • unperfected,
  • bluff,
  • Dwarfed,
  • mendicant,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • bad.

Paraphrases for Austere:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    strict.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    stark, tight, bleak, low-tech, primitive, rugged, crude, grim.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    joyless, rudimentary, stringent, rigorous, severe, harsh, tough, sober, rigid.

Antonyms for Austere:

• adj.

  • refraining; abstinent
    excited.
  • severe in manner
    indulgent, spending, luxurious, extravagant, encouraging, calm.
  • 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.

Homophones for Austere:

• agitator, ashtray, austria, astir, accouter, aster, astaire, actuator, associatory, accusatory, acciaccatura, ash tree, astor, astray, as it were, actor, Akee Tree, agateware, azoturia, actuary, accoutre.