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 →

2) Austere can also mean stern and serious in manner. tree →

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 →
• The room was bare and austere. tree →
• The old teacher had an austere face. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «austere» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.