austerity 音标拼音: [
, ɔst'ɛrɪti]
n . 朴素,节俭,苦行,严肃,严峻,酸涩
朴素,节俭,苦行,严肃,严峻,酸涩
austerity n 1 :
the trait of great self -
denial (
especially refraining from worldly pleasures ) [
synonym : {
austerity }, {
asceticism },
{
nonindulgence }]
Austerity \
Aus *
ter "
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ty \,
n .;
pl . {
Austerities }. [
F .
aust ['
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L .
austerias ,
fr .
austerus .
See {
Austere }.]
1 .
Sourness and harshness to the taste . [
Obs .] --
Horsley .
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1913 Webster ]
2 .
Severity of manners or life ;
extreme rigor or strictness ;
harsh discipline .
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1913 Webster ]
The austerity of John the Baptist . --
Milton .
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3 .
Plainness ;
freedom from adornment ;
severe simplicity .
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Partly owing to the studied austerity of her dress ,
and partly to the lack of demonstration in her manners . --
Hawthorne .
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1913 Webster ]
134 Moby Thesaurus words for "
austerity ":
Albigensianism ,
Catharism ,
Franciscanism ,
Lenten fare ,
Sabbatarianism ,
Spartan simplicity ,
Spartanism ,
Trappism ,
Waldensianism ,
Yoga ,
abstinence ,
anchoritic monasticism ,
anchoritism ,
asceticism ,
astringency ,
austerity program ,
authoritarianism ,
baldness ,
bareness ,
candor ,
canniness ,
care ,
carefulness ,
chariness ,
common speech ,
demandingness ,
directness ,
discipline ,
economic planning ,
economicalness ,
economy ,
economy of means ,
eremitism ,
exactingness ,
exiguity ,
exiguousness ,
false economy ,
fasting ,
flagellation ,
forehandedness ,
frankness ,
frugality ,
frugalness ,
good management ,
grimness ,
hardness ,
harshness ,
homespun ,
household words ,
husbandry ,
inclemency ,
inornateness ,
jejuneness ,
jejunity ,
leanness ,
maceration ,
management ,
matter -
of -
factness ,
meagerness ,
meanness ,
mendicantism ,
meticulousness ,
miserliness ,
monachism ,
monasticism ,
mortification ,
narrowness ,
naturalness ,
niggardliness ,
openness ,
paltriness ,
parsimoniousness ,
parsimony ,
plain English ,
plain speaking ,
plain speech ,
plain style ,
plain words ,
plainness ,
prosaicness ,
prosiness ,
providence ,
prudence ,
prudential administration ,
puniness ,
puritanism ,
regimentation ,
restrainedness ,
rigid discipline ,
rigor ,
roughness ,
ruggedness ,
rustic style ,
scantiness ,
scantness ,
scrawniness ,
scrimpiness ,
self -
denial ,
self -
mortification ,
severity ,
simpleness ,
simplicity ,
skimpiness ,
slenderness ,
slightness ,
slim pickings ,
slimness ,
smallness ,
soberness ,
spareness ,
sparingness ,
starkness ,
sternness ,
stinginess ,
straightforwardness ,
strictness ,
stringency ,
thinness ,
thrift ,
thriftiness ,
tight purse strings ,
toughness ,
unadorned style ,
unadornedness ,
unaffectedness ,
unelaborateness ,
unfanciness ,
unfussiness ,
ungentleness ,
unimaginativeness ,
unpoeticalness ,
unwastefulness ,
vernacular ,
voluntary poverty
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