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austere, adj. 1. severe, harsh, strict, strait-laced, forbidding, hard, stern, grim; formal, aloof, cold, distant, stiff; inflexible, stilted, unbending, unyielding, rigid, tight; rigorous, relentless, unfeeling, inhuman, cruel; commanding, authoritative, authoritarian, peremptory.
2. abstemious, puritanical, puritan-like, abstinent, nonindulgent; moral, upright, righteous, right-minded, faultless, sinless; continent, chaste, celibate, virgin, virginal; restrained, self-restrained, controlled, selfcontrolled, self-disciplined, self-mortifying; ascetic, self-denying, self-abnegating.
3. serious, solemn, sober, formal; sedate, staid, conservative, reserved, dignified, poised; grave, important, consequential; significant, considered, concerned, responsible; momentous, weighty, heavy, ponderous, profound, intense.
4. subdued, quiet, soft, softened, mellow, toned down; gray, grayish, grayed, neutral; dull, dreary, mousy, drab; somber, dark, sad, gloomy, dun, heavy, leaden.
5. plain, simple, limited, unexaggerated, unembroidered, unvarnished, unadorned, unembellished; unornamented, undecked, ungarnished, unenriched; prosaic, ordinary, commonplace.
6 hard, harsh, severe, cold, realistic, practical; solid, substantial, firm, sound, real, tangible.
7. rough, harsh, strong, pungent, poignant; sharp, keen, biting, stinging, caustic, acrimonious; bitter, sour, tart, acid, acerb, vinegarish, astringent; distasteful, unpleasant, unpalatable, unsavory, disagreeable, nasty.
austerity, n. 1. severity, harshness, asperity, strictness; hardness, sternness, grimness, seriousness, sobriety, soberness; formality, stiffness, inflexibility, unbendingness, rigidity, rigidness, tightness, rigor, rigorousness; relentlessness, unyieldingness, unfeelingness, inhumanity, cruelty; acrimony, acrimoniousness, acerbity, sharpness, keenness, commandingness, authoritativeness, peremptoriness.
2. abstemiousness, Puritanism, habitual abstinence, abstention, nonindulgence; continence, celibacy, chasteness, chastity, virginity; refrainment, refraining, forbearance, forbearing, desistance, desisting; holding off, resisting, resistance; restraint, self-restraint, control, self-control.
3. asceticism, self-denial, self-abnegation, selfdeprivation; privation, hardship, suffering, affliction, trouble, burden, oppression.
4. austerities ascetic practices, repentance, contrition, penance, penitence, sack cloth and ashes, fasting; self-mortification, self-discipline, self-flagellation, scourging, whipping; hair shirt, scourge, whip, lash.
5. simplicity, plainness, unadornment, undecorous-ness; commonness, homeliness, unpretentiousness, ordinariness; bareness, spareness, baldness, nakedness.
authentic, adj. 1. reliable, dependable, trustworthy, trusted, trusty; credible, believable, Inf. all right, Inf O.K.; realistic, true-to-life, factual, actual, real, true; honest, truthful, veracious; exact, precise, accurate, close, faithful, strict; official, authoritative, unquestionable, indisputable, indubitable, SI. from the horse's mouth.
2. genuine, real, Dial, sure-enough, simon-pure, sterling, the real McCoy; bona fide, veritable, SI. real live, Inf. honest-to-goodness, Inf. kosher, Archaic. authentical, Australian, dinkum; legitimate, rightful, lawful, just, legal, licit; valid, authenticated, verified, confirmed; attested, vouched for, warranted, certified, guaranteed; standard, accepted, approved, conventional, orthodox.
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