Austereとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɒˈstɪə(ɹ)/, /ɔːˈstɪə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA: /ɔˈstiɹ/, enPR: ôstēr′
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ɑˈstiɹ/
• 韻: -ɪə(ɹ)

形容詞

austere (comparative austerer or more austere, superlative austerest or most austere)

1. Grim or severe in manner or appearance.

   Synonyms: stern, strict, forbidding, ascetic; see also Thesaurus:stern

   The headmistress was an austere old woman.

   • 1962, Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution, page 61:

     Even the austere philosopher Immanuel Kant of Koenigsberg, it is said, whose habits were so regular that the citizens of that town set their watches by him, postponed the hour of his afternoon stroll when he received the news [of the fall of the Bastille], thus convincing Koenigsberg that a world-shaking event had indeed happened.

2. Lacking decoration; trivial; not extravagant or gaudy.

   Synonyms: simple, plain, unadorned, unembellished; see also Thesaurus:unadorned

   Antonyms: overwrought, flamboyant, extravagant, gaudy, flashy; see also Thesaurus:gaudy

   The interior of the church was as austere as the parishioners were dour.

   • 1958 October, Rev. A. W. V. Mace, “From Faversham to Dover—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 670:

     So we come, at above street level, into the city, and to Canterbury East Station (9.8 miles). It is an austere, rather barn-like structure, with a high roof over the two platforms.

3. Adhering to the economic policy of austerity.
   • 2024 December 14, Reece Martin, “Learning from Melbourne’s Level Crossing Removal Project” (9:05 from the start), in RMTransit‎:

     Counterintuitively, in an effort to be austere and save money, cities which only remove a crossing every couple of years manage to be way less efficient at it than Melbourne has been.

4. Harsh; astringent.
   • 1862, Charles Pierpoint Johnson, The Useful Plants of Great Britain, page 85:

     It is like a small plum, nearly globular in shape, black covered with a bluish bloom, and with a very austere taste.

派生語

形容詞

austēre

1. vocative masculine singular of austērus

参照

• “austere”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “austere”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers