Definition for Austere (-r)

austere (-r), adj. [OFr < L. < Gk 'making the tongue dry and rough'.]

  1. Severe; strict; abstinent; self-disciplined; restrained; stringently moral.
  2. Bleak; stark; bare; frugal; temperate; abstemious; [fig.] cold; deathly.

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