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# austere

«austere» in Mova's school dictionary: **plain and strict, without comfort, luxury or decoration** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (austerer, austerest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Austere means plain and strict, without comfort, luxury or decoration. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/austere/#m1)

2) Austere can also mean stern and serious in manner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/austere/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a plain, hard way of life, such as a monk's or a knight's, or a stern person.

### examples

- The monk lived an austere life. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/austere/#x1)
- The room was bare and austere. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/austere/#x2)
- The old teacher had an austere face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/austere/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «austere» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/austere/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.