Austere vs Chaste - What's the difference?
austere | chaste |
Grim or severe in manner or appearance
Lacking trivial decoration; not extravagant or gaudy
abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate
virginal, innocent, having had no sexual experience
simple, austere, undecorative
modest, decent, morally pure
As adjectives the difference between austere and chaste
is that austere is grim or severe in manner or appearance while chaste is abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate.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 * austerelychaste
English
Adjective
(er)- a chaste style in composition or art
- a chaste''' mind; '''chaste eyes