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Austere vs Ill-humored - What's the difference?

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Austere is a related term of ill-humored.


As adjectives the difference between austere and ill-humored

is that austere is austere while ill-humored is having a bad temper.

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

    ill-humored

    English

    Alternative forms

    * ill-humoured

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • having a bad temper
  • irritable in a surly manner.