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
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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
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