Synonyms for Austere:

• adj.

  •acrid (adjective)
  • mordant.
  •all (adjective)
  • austere,
  • stern,
  • severe.
  •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.
  •ascetic (adjective)
  • penitential,
  • celibate,
  • franciscan,
  • trappist,
  • dry,
  • lenten,
  • miserly,
  • hermit-like,
  • spartan,
  • teetotaling,
  • disciplined,
  • repentant,
  • stoic,
  • parsimonious.
  •bald (adjective)
  • out-rightest,
  • out righter,
  • out rightest,
  • un embellished,
  • out right,
  • out-right,
  • un-embellished,
  • out-righter.
  •bare (adjective)
  • most unornamented,
  • un-ornamented,
  • meager,
  • more unornamented,
  • un ornamented.
  •bleak (adjective)
  • 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.
  •chaste (adjective)
  • 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.
  •cheerless (adjective)
  • 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.
  •continent (adjective)
  • abstentious.
  •economical (adjective)
  • cheeseparing,
  • sparing,
  • economical,
  • stingy,
  • moderate,
  • cheap,
  • thrifty,
  • self-denying,
  • frugal,
  • prudent.
  •frigid (adjective)
  • 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.
  •grim (adjective)
  • 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.
  •grim, barren (adjective)
  • unembellished,
  • dour,
  • unadorned,
  • bare-bones,
  • primitive,
  • spare,
  • clean.
  •hard (adjective)
  • unsparing,
  • harder,
  • hard as nails,
  • hardboiled.
  •harsh (adjective)
  • hardshell,
  • dis courteous,
  • more hard nosed,
  • most cussed,
  • hard nosed,
  • more cussed,
  • un civil,
  • un-gracious,
  • hard-nosed,
  • dis-courteous,
  • un gracious,
  • un-civil.
  •monastic (adjective)
  • more oblate,
  • most monkish,
  • monkish,
  • more monkish,
  • most oblate.
  •onerous (adjective)
  • 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.
  •passionless (adjective)
  • un responsive,
  • un-responsive,
  • most ardorless,
  • more ardorless.
  •pitiless (adjective)
  • inhumane,
  • killer instinct,
  • coldhearted,
  • coldblooded,
  • hatchetjob,
  • dog eat dog,
  • remorseless.
  •plain (adjective)
  • more muted,
  • most muted,
  • un-varnished,
  • un varnished.
  •primitive (adjective)
  • 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.
  •prudish (adjective)
  • 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.
  •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.
  •rigid (adjective)
  • 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.
  •rigorous (adjective)
  • most ironhanded,
  • more ironhanded.
  •rough (adjective)
  • uncompleted,
  • unwrought,
  • unhewn,
  • Unfashioned,
  • unprocessed,
  • roughhewn.
  •rustic (adjective)
  • Outland,
  • most outland,
  • more outland.
  •sarcastic (adjective)
  • 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.
  •serious (adjective)
  • unhumorous,
  • no nonsense,
  • cold sober,
  • long-faced,
  • go for broke.
  •severe (adjective)
  • 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.
  •severe in manner (adjective)
  • sober.
  •sharp (adjective)
  • strong-smelling,
  • vinegary.
  •simple (adjective)
  • direct,
  • candid,
  • uncombined,
  • artless,
  • refined,
  • inelaborate,
  • unblended,
  • open and shut,
  • uncomplicated,
  • childlike,
  • crystalline,
  • not complex,
  • folksy,
  • uncompounded,
  • unsophisticated,
  • terse,
  • unmixed.
  •sobersided (adjective)
  • in earnest.
  •solemn (adjective)
  • matter of life death,
  • most brooding,
  • matter life and death,
  • matter life death,
  • more brooding.
  •spartan (adjective)
  • un-daunted,
  • un daunted.
  •stark (adjective)
  • 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.
  •stern (adjective)
  • 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.
  •stiff (adjective)
  • 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.
  •stingy (adjective)
  • Hard-fisted,
  • mean,
  • tight,
  • narrow-fisted,
  • penny-pinching,
  • petty,
  • closefisted.
  •strict (adjective)
  • more ironfisted,
  • most iron fisted,
  • iron fisted,
  • most iron-fisted,
  • more stickling,
  • most ironfisted,
  • more iron-fisted,
  • most stickling,
  • more iron fisted.
  •temperate (adjective)
  • Abnegating,
  • self-depriving,
  • Sober-minded,
  • temperate,
  • restrained,
  • conservative.
  •unadorned (adjective)
  • un-adorned,
  • un adorned.
  •unmitigated (adjective)
  • un abated,
  • un abridged,
  • straightout,
  • most unabated,
  • more unalleviated,
  • most unbroken,
  • more unabated,
  • un broken,
  • un relieved,
  • un diluted,
  • un-abridged,
  • un-alleviated,
  • un-mitigated,
  • clearcut,
  • un-abated,
  • un-broken,
  • most unalleviated,
  • un-diluted,
  • un-relieved,
  • un alleviated,
  • un mitigated,
  • more unbroken.
  •unperfected (adjective)
  • un-perfected,
  • un perfected.
  •vanilla (adjective)
  • more uncluttered,
  • most uncluttered,
  • un-cluttered,
  • un cluttered.

• n.

  •
  • attitude,
  • fast,
  • inactive,
  • hot.
  •
  • thrift,
  • Economies,
  • careful,
  • economic,
  • ungenerous.
  •ascetical (noun)
  • ascetical.
  •austere (noun)
  • nonindulgent.
  •harsh (noun)
  • modest,
  • for bidding,
  • study atsevere.
  •plain (noun)
  • baring.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • gracious,
  • outdoorsy,
  • back-to-nature,
  • rootless,
  • hardline,
  • societal,
  • bohemian,
  • tough love,
  • sedentary,
  • nomadic,
  • rigor,
  • unyielding,
  • Hard-featured.
  •
  • strident,
  • new age,
  • suburban,
  • socially,
  • living,
  • enclosed.
  •
  • settled,
  • private.
  •
  • social,
  • iron.
  •undecorated
  • functional,
  • simply,
  • plainly.
  •Other relevant words:
  • 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:

• 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.