austere (adj.)

• abstemious
• abstinent
• anchoritic
• ascetic
• astringent
• authoritarian
• bald
• bare
• basic
• biting
• bitter
• bleak
• candid
• chaste
• common
• commonplace
• demanding
• direct
• dour
• dry
• dull
• dwarfish
• earnest
• elementary
• eremitic
• essential
• exacting
• exigent
• exiguous
• frank
• frugal
• fundamental
• grave
• grim
• hard
• harsh
• homely
• homespun
• homogeneous
• impoverished
• inclement
• indivisible
• irreducible
• jejune
• keen
• lean
• limited
• matter-of-fact
• meager
• mean
• mendicant
• mere
• meticulous
• miserly
• monolithic
• mortified
• narrow
• natural
• neat
• niggardly
• open
• paltry
• parsimonious
• plain
• poor
• primal
• primary
• prosaic
• prosy
• puny
• pure
• puritanical
• rough
• rugged
• rustic
• scant
• scanty
• scrawny
• scrimpy
• self-denying
• serious
• severe
• sharp
• simple
• single
• skimpy
• slender
• slight
• slim
• small
• sober
• somber
• spare
• sparing
• stark
• stern
• stingy
• stinted
• straightforward
• strict
• stringent
• stunted
• thin
• tough
• unadorned
• unaffected
• uncluttered
• undecorated
• undifferentiated
• unelaborate
• unembellished
• ungentle
• uniform
• unimaginative
• unornamented
• unsparing
• unvarnished
• watered
• watery