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.

Adj.	1.	austere - severely simple; "a stark interior" Synonyms: stark, severe
	2.	austere - of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face" Synonyms: stern
	3.	austere - 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" Synonyms: ascetic, ascetical, spartan

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