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austerity
[aw-ster-i-tee]
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| 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: | simplicity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
flat, ascetic, austere, bald, chaste, cynical, dry, dull, exoteric, free from affectation, free from ornament, homely, homespun, inornate, monotonous, neat, ordinary, over, pure, puritanical, saxon, severe, simple, simplistic, unadorned, unaffected, unarrayed, undecked, ungarnished, unornamented, untrimmed, unvaried, unvarnished
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| Concept: | Simplicity. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
simplicity; plainness, homeliness; undress, chastity.
-verbs
be simple, render simple; simplify.
-adjectives
simple, plain; homely, homespun; ordinary, household., unaffected; free from affectation, free from ornament; simplex munditiis [Horace]; sans facon, en deshabille., chaste, inornate, severe., unadorned, unornamented, undecked, ungarnished, unarranged, untrimmed, unvarnished., bald, flat, dull.
-phrases
veritatis simplex oratio est.
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| Antonyms: | ornament |
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