What is another word for "austere"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "austere": abstinence, acerbic, anchoret, anchorite, and, ascetic, asceticism, ashes, austerity, cynic, cynical, cynicism, flagellation, hermit, maceration, martyr, martyrdom, mortification, nephalism, penance, puritan, puritanical, puritanism, recluse, sabbatarian, sabbatarianism, sackcloth, total, yogi.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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