Dictionary Entry
austere
austere is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1
Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.
- 2
Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life.
- 3
Unadorned; unembellished; severely simple.
- 4adjective
practicing great self-denial- William James
"Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"
"a desert nomad's austere life"
- 5adjective
of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect
"an austere expression"
"a stern face"
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- 6adjective
severely simple
"a stark interior"
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