Crabbed vs Austere - What's the difference?
crabbed | austere | Related terms |
Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
Cramped, bent.
* 1800(?) Robert Southey, Winter
(of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.
(crab)
Grim or severe in manner or appearance
Lacking trivial decoration; not extravagant or gaudy
Crabbed is a related term of austere.
As adjectives the difference between crabbed and austere
is that crabbed is bad-tempered or cantankerous while austere is austere.As a verb crabbed
is (crab).crabbed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee,
- Old Winter, with a rugged beard as grey
- As the long moss upon the apple-tree;
Derived terms
* crabbedly * crabbednessVerb
(head)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.