Difference between Abstemious and Austere

ABSTEMIOUS vs AUSTERE: ADJECTIVE

Characterized by abstinence or moderation.
Eating and drinking in moderation.
Marked by temperance in indulgence
Marked by, or spent in, abstinence.
Abstaining from wine.
Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.
Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation.
Promotive of abstemiousness.
Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life.
Sparing in consumption of especially food and drink

Promoting or favoring abstemiousness; associated with temperance.
Devoted to or spent in abstemiousness or abstinence: as, an abstemious life.
Restricted; very moderate and plain; very sparing; spare: opposed to luxurious or rich: as, an abstemious diet.
Sparing in diet; moderate in the use of food and drink; temperate; abstinent.

Sour; harsh; rough to the taste: applied to things: as, austere fruit or wine; “sloes austere,”
Severe; harsh; rigid; rigorous; stern: applied to persons and things: as, an austere master; an austere look.
Grave; sober; serious: as, austere deportment.
Severely simple; unadorned.
Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity
Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern.
Unadorned; unembellished; severely simple.
Forbidding in aspect

Pious, Frugal, Sober, Unostentatious, Parsimonious, Monkish, Teetotal, Abstentious, Light, Temperate, Abstinent, Spartan, Ascetical, Austere, Ascetic

Drab, Frugal, Strict, Harsh, Rigid, Rustic, Nonindulgent, Severe, Plain, Stern, Ascetical, Stark, Abstemious, Ascetic, Spartan

Pious, Frugal, Sober, Unostentatious, Parsimonious, Monkish, Teetotal, Abstentious, Light, Temperate, Abstinent, Spartan, Ascetical, Austere, Ascetic

Drab, Frugal, Strict, Harsh, Rigid, Rustic, Nonindulgent, Severe, Plain, Stern, Ascetical, Stark, Abstemious, Ascetic, Spartan

He was incapable of small talk, and he was an unapologetic workaholic, abstemious to the point of joylessness.
Sith consider the dark side of the Force to be its most powerful manifestation, and regard the abstemious Jedi as blinded by false virtue.
She can achieve this goal in part by reducing her sexual desires and production of semen through an abstemious diet of cooling, drying foods.
Nana was an abstemious eater though, as in his good old days, he enjoyed his Mosi and Castle lagers, occasionally taking Gin.
Bill, who wants to lose weight, is abstemious in eating foods high in fat.
But for all this, the great negro was wonderfully abstemious, not to say dainty.
His habits were strictly abstemious, and he neither took wine nor strong drink.
Small, narrow, slim; weak, feeble, slight; moderate, trivial, inconsiderable, meager; spare, abstemious, frugal.
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The present manning policy creates an austere situation.
They were a very austere and devout populace.
The claim is much humbler and metaphysically austere.
Austere construction requires durable materials and finishes throughout.
Without them, Pigeon Forge is an austere place.
Wharf and the austere beauty of Ocean Beach.
The rabbit: cute and furry, yet surprisingly austere.
UW campaigns in sensitive, austere and denied environments.
To the pure He will show Himself pure and to the austere He will show Himself austere.
Dynamic and Austere Environment The tactical environment is by its very nature a dynamic and austere environment in which to practice EMS.