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Austere vs Unornamented - What's the difference?

austere | unornamented | Related terms |

As adjectives the difference between austere and unornamented

is that austere is grim or severe in manner or appearance while unornamented is not ornamented; without ornament.

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

    unornamented

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not ornamented; without ornament
  • *{{quote-news, year=1988, date=April 29, author=Cerinda Survant, title=The Invisible Dancer, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=The many repetitions of unornamented locomotor movement describing great diagonals do eventually wear. }}

    Synonyms

    *unadorned