austere

austere has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.
• Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life.
• Unadorned; unembellished; severely simple.
• a.. 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"
• a.. of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"
• a.. severely simple; "a stark interior"