Austere

Definition

austere /ɒ'stÇǝ(r), ↄ:'stÇǝ(r)/ adj ၁။ စည္းကမ္းႀကီးေသာ။ အက်င့္ၿခိဳးၿခံေသာ။ My father was always a rath- er distant, austere figure. အေဖဟာ အေရာတဝင္ မေနဘူး။ စည္းကမ္းလည္းႀကီးတယ္။ ❍ monks leading simple, austere lives. ၂။ ႐ိုး႐ိုးေလး။ The room was furnished in austere style. austerely adv ❏ austerity /ɒ'sterǝti, ↄ:-/ n ၁။ [U] ၿခိဳးၿခံျခင္း။ the austerity of the government's economic measures ❍ War was followed by many years of austerity. ၂။ [C usu pl ] ေခြၽတာေရး။ Wartime austerities included food rationing and shortage of fuel.

Examples

1. The church is large and austere.
2. An austere
3. silent woman showed him round the small flat.
4. He was a man of austere habits.
5. Austere measures
6. Austere economic policies