austere

Adjective
  1. Severely simple (synset 301796896)
    "a stark interior"
    similar to: plain - not elaborate or elaborated; simple
    same as: severe, stark, stern
  2. Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor;
    Forbidding in aspect (synset 301303135)
    "an austere expression"; "a stern face"
    similar to: nonindulgent, strict - characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint
    same as: stern
  3. Practicing great self-denial (synset 300009637)
    "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"
    similar to: abstemious - sparing in consumption of especially food and drink
    same as: ascetic, ascetical, spartan

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