Associations to the word «Austere»
Noun
- Celestial
- Interior
- Furnishing
- Grotto
- Rough
- Tenderness
- Firmness
- Meditation
- Extravagance
- Temperament
- Hermitage
- Swami
- Stern
- Veda
- Contrast
- Remote
- Soothing
- Style
- Budget
- Refinement
- Orthodoxy
- Luxury
- Sobbing
- Wickedness
- Reformation
- Perfect
- Solitude
- Architecture
- Gown
- Picasso
- Zeal
- Ideal
- Manner
- Disapproval
- Taste
- Robe
- Idiom
- Righteousness
- Fresco
- Calvin
- Repose
- Passion
- Disciple
- Bran
- Detailing
- Vulcan
- Benedict
- Disguise
- Holiness
- Living
- Affection
- Bluff
- Rousseau
- Sect
- Vocation
- Cushion
- Setting
- Genius
- Cloister
Adjective
Wiktionary
AUSTERE, adjective. Grim or severe in manner or appearance
AUSTERE, adjective. Lacking trivial decoration; not extravagant or gaudy
Dictionary definition
AUSTERE, adjective. Severely simple; "a stark interior".
AUSTERE, adjective. Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face".
AUSTERE, adjective. Practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence".
Wise words
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.