Meaning & Definition of Austere in English

1. Severely simple

• "A stark interior"

2. Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor

• Forbidding in aspect

• "An austere expression"

• "A stern face"

3. 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"