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
chrewd
Not English
Chrewd has no English definition. It may be misspelled.
English words similar to 'chrewd':
crowd,
creed,
chord,
coward,
chard,
crewed,
carried,
cried,
cared,
cariad,
cured,
cheered,
choroid,
chorred,
cowered,
chaired,
curried,
charred,
cohered,
crowed,
cowherd,
cored,
chirred,
churred,
ceroid,
carryed,
cowyard,
croud,
caried,
caird,
cered,
carid,
cirrid,
coreid,
chared,
curred,
chored