Austerity Synonyms and Antonyms

ô-stĕrĭ-tē
Grimness
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. economicalness
  2. exiguousness
  3. frugalness
  4. matter-of-factness
  5. parsimoniousness
  6. prosaicness
  7. prosiness
  8. scrawniness
  9. skimpiness
  10. unadornedness
  11. unfussiness
  12. unimaginativeness
Antonyms:
  1. exuberance
  2. elaborateness
  3. joy
  4. luxuriousness

Words Related to Austerity

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Austerity Sentence Examples

  • In the Constituent Assembly his oratorical gifts, legal knowledge and austerity of life gave him much influence.

  • His pride and austerity made him unpopular at court and he left the country in 1642, settling at last in Padua, where he died in 1646.

  • There was nothing of stoical austerity or of rhetorical indignation in the tone in which he treated the vices and follies of his time.

  • His life of ostentatious austerity, and the courage with which he met his death, had caused all his faults to be forgotten.

  • Two court-singers, Sallama and Ilababa, exercised great influence, tempered only by the austerity of manners that prevailed in Syria.

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