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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | severe in manner |
| Synonyms: | ascetic, astringent, cold, earnest, exacting, forbidding, formal, grave, grim, hard, harsh, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, rigid, rigorous, serious, sober, solemn, somber, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, unfeeling, unrelenting |
| Antonyms: | bland, calm, gentle, meek, mild |
| Main Entry: | austere |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grim, barren |
| Synonyms: | bald, bare, bare-bones, bleak, clean, dour, plain, primitive, rustic, severe, simple, spare, spartan, stark, subdued, unadorned, unembellished, vanilla |
| Antonyms: | extravagant, luxurious |
| Main Entry: | abstemious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | restraining behavior or appetite |
| Synonyms: | abstinent, ascetic, austere, continent, frugal, moderate, moderating, restrained, self-denying, self-restrained, sober, sparing, temperate |
| Antonyms: | gluttonous, greedy, hungry |
| Main Entry: | acrid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty in behavior or words |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, austere, biting, bitter, caustic, cutting, harsh, mordant, sarcastic, sharp, trenchant, vitriolic |
| Antonyms: | complimentary, kind, nice |
| Main Entry: | antisocial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nonparticipating; avoiding company |
| Synonyms: | alienated, ascetic, asocial, austere, cold, cynical, eremetic, hermitlike, introverted, misanthropic, reclusive, remote, reserved, retiring, solitary, standoffish, uncommunicative, unfriendly, unsociable, withdrawn |
| Notes: | to be antisocial is to be hostile to or disruptive of the established social order, marked by or engaging in behavior that violates accepted mores; while being unsociable means one is not disposed to seek the company of others or is reserved |
| Antonyms: | friendly, fun-loving, participating, sociable |
| Main Entry: | ascetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | self-denying |
| Synonyms: | Spartan, abstaining, abstemious, abstinent, austere, disciplined, puritanical, strict |
| Main Entry: | bald |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | simple, unadorned |
| Synonyms: | austere, bare, blunt, direct, downright, forthright, outright, plain, severe, straight, straightforward, unembellished |
| Antonyms: | adorned, decorated |
| Main Entry: | bare |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | simple, unadorned |
| Synonyms: | austere, bald, basic, blunt, chaste, cold, essential, hard, literal, meager, mere, modest, scant, severe, sheer, simple, spare, stark, unembellished, unornamented |
| Notes: | bare is to uncover or reveal or to expose; bear is to hold up, support, transport - or an animal |
| Antonyms: | adorned, decorated |
| Main Entry: | bleak |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | barren |
| Synonyms: | austere, bare, blank, blighted, bombed, bulldozed, burned, chilly, cleared, cold, deforested, desert, deserted, desolate, dreary, exposed, flat, gaunt, grim, open, raw, scorched, stripped, unpopulated, unsheltered, weather-beaten, wild, windswept |
| Antonyms: | appealing, bright, comfortable, nice, pleasant, sunny |
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