The adjective austere is used to describe something or someone stern or without any decoration. You wouldn't want someone to describe you or your home as austere.
Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity;
Adjective S.
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"
Adjective S.
of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"
Adjective S.
severely simple; "a stark interior"
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.
Austere
From whom the austere Etrurian virtue rose.3.
Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity;
Usage Examples
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
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Other Usage ExamplesStrong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
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