Austere vs Morose - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between austere and morose

is that austere is grim or severe in manner or appearance while morose is sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.

(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.

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

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

* austerity * austerely

(en adjective)

Sullen]], gloomy; showing a [[brood, brooding ill humour

* melancholy * sulky * crabby * glum * grouchy * gruff * moody

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