austere
adjective
[ ɒˈstɪə ]
• severe or strict in manner or attitude.
• "he was an austere man, with a rigidly puritanical outlook"
Similar:
severe,
stern,
strict,
harsh,
unfeeling,
stony,
steely,
flinty,
dour,
grim,
cold,
frosty,
frigid,
icy,
chilly,
unemotional,
unfriendly,
formal,
stiff,
stuffy,
reserved,
remote,
distant,
aloof,
forbidding,
mean-looking,
grave,
solemn,
serious,
unsmiling,
unsympathetic,
unforgiving,
uncharitable,
hard,
rigorous,
stringent,
unyielding,
unbending,
unrelenting,
inflexible,
illiberal,
no-nonsense,
hard-boiled,
hard-nosed,
solid,
Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from Latin austerus, from Greek austēros ‘severe’.
