Austere vs Austere - What's the difference?
austere | austere |
Grim or severe in manner or appearance
Lacking trivial decoration; not extravagant or gaudy
Grim or severe in manner or appearance
Lacking trivial decoration; not extravagant or gaudy
As adjectives the difference between austere and austere
is that austere is austere while austere is austere.austere
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- The headmistress was an austere old woman.
- 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, unembellishedAntonyms
* (not lacking trivial decoration) overwrought, flamboyant, extravagant, gaudy, flashyDerived terms
* austerity * austerelyaustere
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- The headmistress was an austere old woman.
- The interior of the church was as austere as the parishioners were dour.