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| Main Entry: |
austerity
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severity |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, asperity, astringence, coldness, exactingness, exactness, formality, formalness, gravity, grimness, hardness, harshness, inclemency, inflexibility, obduracy, rigidity, rigor, seriousness, solemnity, sternness, stiffness, strictness, stringency |
| Antonyms: | blandness, calmness, gentility, meekness, mildness |
| Main Entry: | austerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grimness, barrenness |
| Synonyms: | baldness, bareness, dourness, economy, plainness, primitiveness, rusticism, severity, simplicity, spareness, spartanism, starkness, unadornment |
| Antonyms: | elaborateness, luxuriousness |
| Main Entry: | economy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | saving, frugality |
| Synonyms: | abridgement, austerity, care, carefulness, caution, curtailment, cutback, decrease, deduction, direction, discretion, husbandry, layoff, meanness, miserliness, moratorium, niggardliness, parcity, parsimony, providence, prudence, recession, reduction, regulation, restraint, retrenchment, rollback, scrimping, shrinkage, skimping, sparingness, stinginess, supervision, thrift, thriftiness |
| Antonyms: | spending, squandering |
| Main Entry: | hardship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal burden |
| Synonyms: | Herculean task, accident, adversity, affliction, asperity, austerity, calamity, case, catastrophe, curse, danger, destitution, difficulty, disaster, discomfort, distress, drudgery, fatigue, grief, grievance, hard knocks, hazard, injury, labor, mischance, misery, misfortune, need, oppression, peril, persecution, privation, rainy day, rigor, rotten luck, sorrow, suffering, toil, torment, tough break, tough luck, travail, trial, tribulation, trouble, uphill battle, vicissitude, want, worry |
| Antonyms: | advantage, assistance, benefit, blessing, ease, favor, gain, good, profit |
| Main Entry: | rigor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strictness, exactness |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, affliction, asperity, austerity, conscientiousness, conventionalism, difficulty, exactitude, firmness, hardness, hardship, harshness, inclemency, inflexibility, intolerance, meticulousness, obduracy, ordeal, preciseness, precision, privation, punctiliousness, rigidity, roughness, severity, sternness, stiffness, stringency, suffering, tenacity, thoroughness, traditionalism, trial, tribulation, vicissitude, visitation |
| Antonyms: | ease, elasticity, flexibility, leniency, pliability |
| Main Entry: | temperance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | self-restraint; abstinence |
| Synonyms: | abnegation, abstemiousness, asceticism, astringency, austerity, conservatism, constraint, continence, control, discretion, eschewal, forbearance, forgoing, frugality, golden mean, happy medium, measure, moderateness, moderation, moderatism, mortification, prohibition, prudence, reasonableness, refrainment, restraint, sacrifice, self-control, self-denial, self-deprivation, self-discipline, soberness, sobriety, stoicism, teetotalism, uninebriation, unintoxication |
| Antonyms: | excess, intemperance, wildness |
| Main Entry: | thrift |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | economy |
| Synonyms: | austerity, carefulness, economizing, frugality, parsimony, providence, prudence, saving, stinginess, thriftiness |
| Antonyms: | extravagance, spending, waste |
| Main Entry: | prudence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | caution |
| Synonyms: | austerity, calculation, care, carefulness, circumspection, concern, conservation, conservatism, considerateness, coolness, deliberation, diligence, discretion, economy, foresight, forethought, frugality, heed, heedfulness, judgment, judiciousness, precaution, providence, reasoning, sagacity, tact, vigilance, watchfulness, wisdom |
| Antonyms: | carelessness, disregard, imprudence, rashness, recklessness |
| Main Entry: | severity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | asperity |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, austerity, cruelty, grimness, hardheartedness, hardness, harshness, rigor, sharpness, sternness, strictness, unkindness |
| Antonyms: | kindness, pity, softness |
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