Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: austere
IPA transcription: [ɔst'ɪɹ]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: austere, severe, stark, stern
    Meaning: severely simple; "a stark interior"
Usage examples
  • Even the scenery is austere.
  • To these austere fanatics a holiday was an object of positive disgust and hatred.
  • He was stoical, serious, austere; a melancholy dreamer, humble and haughty, like fanatics.
  • Lord Mortimer of the Marches sat his horse with the same austere indifference, his melancholy profile against the fading sky.
  • To these austere manners, the Roman women joined an enthusiastic love of their country, which discovered itself upon many great occasions.
  • And the mother of the Gracchi, your Cornelia, and the daughter of Cato, wife of Brutus, before whom pale the austere virtue of the father and the courage of the husband--are they not the pride of the whole of Rome?