Synonyms: nonindulgent, strict
Definition: characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint
Definition: of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect
Usage: an austere expression; a stern face
Similar words: blue, puritanic, puritanical
Definition: morally rigorous and strict
Usage: the puritan work ethic; puritanic distaste for alcohol; she was anything but puritanical in her behavior
Similar words: disciplinal, disciplinary, corrective
Definition: designed to promote discipline
Usage: the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional; disciplinal measures; the mother was stern and disciplinary
Similar words: monkish
Definition: befitting a monk; inclined to self-denial
Similar words: renunciant, renunciative, self-abnegating, self-denying
Definition: used especially of behavior
Similar words: self-disciplined, self-restraining
Definition: used of nonindulgent persons
Similar words: severe, spartan
Definition: unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment
Usage: a parent severe to the pitch of hostility- H.G.Wells; a hefty six-footer with a rather severe mien; a strict disciplinarian; a Spartan upbringing