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What does austere mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word austere? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Grim or severe in manner or appearance
  2. Lacking trivial decoration; not extravagant or gaudy
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Critics knock the X3 for its austere interior, but most BMWs tend toward the spartan.
The film has an austere and bittersweet beauty, but this could easily be interpreted as excessive, like drowning in rivers of despair.
For half a century Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau withered any rival in vocal range with an austere glare and an iron grip on recording opportunities.
He is very reserved and austere, just as you would imagine a grand old man of ancient times to be.
He has purchased a wide range of artwork, including colorful, cartoonish prints and wild abstracts framed in austere black mouldings.
Even in winter there's an austere beauty to the bare branches of aspen, apricot, and apple trees, and the bright-red berries of mountain ash.

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