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Aster vs Austere - What's the difference?

aster | austere |

As a noun aster

is (l).

As an adjective austere is

austere.

aster

English

(wikipedia aster) (wikispecies)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A star.
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.94:
    • by the changes and enter-caprings of which, the revolutions, motions, cadences, and carrols of the asters and planets are caused and transported.
  • Any of several plants of the genus Aster ; one of its flowers.
  • * 1969 , (Vladimir Nabokov), , Penguin 2011, p.120:
    • On a sunny September morning, with the trees still green, but the asters and fleabanes already taking over in ditch and dalk, Van set out for Ladoga, N.A.
  • (biology) A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.

    • Derived terms

    * asteroid * China aster ()

    Related terms

    * astro-

    Anagrams

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    austere

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Grim or severe in manner or appearance
    • The headmistress was an austere old woman.
  • Lacking trivial decoration; not extravagant or gaudy
    • The interior of the church was as austere as the parishioners were dour.

    Synonyms

    * (grim or severe) stern, strict, forbidding * (lacking trivial decoration) simple, plain, unadorned, unembellished

    Antonyms

    * (not lacking trivial decoration) overwrought, flamboyant, extravagant, gaudy, flashy

    Derived terms

    * austerity * austerely