austere
The river is an austerely beautiful 40-mile stretch of water.
This is an austerely plotted but moving collection of stories.
Dressed austerely - long black skirt, pulled-back hair, no earrings or makeup - she paces the narrow stage with nervous energy.
They sat in an austerely furnished room under a bare lightbulb.
She smiled a little, austerely.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Plain and ordinary
as it comesidiom
austere
austerity
average Joe
be a dime a dozenidiom
homey
humble
humdrum
middle-of-the-road
mundane
sparely
spartan
stale
starkly
starkness
unostentatious
unostentatiously
unpainted
unremarkable
unremarkably
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