Austere: Definition and part of speech

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Austere

  1. Unadorned; unembellished; severely simple.
  2. Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.
  3. Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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