Word Meanings - AUSTERE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine. 2. Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life. From whom the austere Etrurian virtue

Additional info about word: AUSTERE

1. Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine. 2. Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life. From whom the austere Etrurian virtue rose. Dryden. 3. Unadorned; unembellished; severely simple. Syn. -- Harsh; sour; rough; rigid; stern; severe; rigorous; strict.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AUSTERE)

• Abstinent
• Temperate
• abstemious
• continent
• sober
• self-denying
• austere
• Morose
• Sullen
• moody
• crabbed
• surly
• crusty
• Rigid
• Stiff
• unpliant
• unflexible
• stubborn
• tough
• stark
• staunch
• unswerving
• exact
• unbending
• undeviating
• Severe
• Serious
• stern
• grave
• strict
• harsh
• rigid
• rigorous
• sharp
• afflictive
• distressing
• violent
• extreme
• critical
• censorious
• caustic
• sarcastic
• cutting
• keen
• bitter
• cruel
• Sour
• Tart
• rancid
• coagulated
• turned
• morose
• pungent
• acid
• churlish
• acetous
• acrimonious
• peevish

Related words: (words related to AUSTERE)

• STAUNCH; STAUNCHLY; STAUNCHNESS
  See ETC
• RANCIDLY
  In a rancid manner.
• SERIOUS
  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
• STERNFOREMOST
  With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell.
• CRABBER
  One who catches crabs.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• STERNUTATORY
  Sternutative. -- n.
• BITTERWEED
  A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• COAGULATE
  Coagulated. Shak. (more info) coagulate, fr. coagulum means of coagulation, fr. cogere, coactum, to
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• STIFFENER
  One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
  The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British
• STRICT
  Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters. Syn. -- Exact; accurate; nice; close; rigorous; severe. -- Strict, Severe. Strict, applied to a person, denotes that he conforms in his motives and acts
• TURNSTONE
  Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
• STERNOHYOID
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.
• TURNINGNESS
  The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. Sir P. Sidney.
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• RE-TURN
  To turn again.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• ASTRICT
  To restrict the tenure of; as, to astrict lands. See Astriction, 4. Burrill. (more info) 1. To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract. The solid parts were to be relaxed or astricted. Arbuthnot. 2. To bind; to constrain; to restrict; to
• BOA CONSTRICTOR
  A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix. Note: It has a succession of spots, alternately black and yellow, extending along the back. It kills its prey by constriction.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• INCONTINENT
  Unable to restrain natural evacuations. (more info) 1. Not continent; uncontrolled; not restraining the passions or appetites, particularly the sexual appetite; indulging unlawful lust; unchaste; lewd.
• PROSTERNATION
  Dejection; depression. Wiseman.
• NOCTURNAL
  1. Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; -- opposed to Ant: diurnal. Dryden. 2. Having a habit of seeking food or moving about at night; as, nocturnal birds and insects.