austere
IPA: ɔstˈɪr
adjective
- Grim or severe in manner or appearance.
- Lacking decoration; trivial; not extravagant or gaudy.
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Examples of "austere" in Sentences
- The aspect of the building is austere.
- The presentation is austere and monolithic.
- He designed the city gates in an austere style.
- Furniture of the period was typically large and austere.
- The instruments provide an austere accompaniment to the voices.
- According to the reconstructions, he is austere and unrelenting.
- “These guys bring a whole new level of meaning to the word austere.”
- Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.
- He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night.
- But Hallendren did not reach this halcyon state without a struggle, a revolution that left those who rejected it living in austere exile in the mountain realm of Idris.
- For example, some commentators say that George Orwell originally wanted to title Nineteen Eighty-Four as 1948, because he saw the world he describes emerging in austere postwar Europe.
- For young men living in austere conditions, going out daily to risk their lives, morale is based not on polite subtleties but on a stark belief in their own righteousness, and in the iniquity of the enemy.
- The England bid will also guarantee Fifa a minimum profit of £161m, which is seen as a crucial plank of the argument in austere times and in the wake of more risky World Cups in South Africa and Brazil 2014.
- Dressed in austere white, her graying hair cut close to her scalp in the orthodox style so that the bristly ends tickle my palms when I run my hands over them, she's the one who makes sure we are suitably dressed for school in the one-inch-below-the-knee uniforms the nuns insist on.