austere

//**Austere** –adjective//
 * < **1.** ||< severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding: //an austere teacher.// ||


 * < **2.** ||< rigorously self-disciplined and severely moral; ascetic; abstinent: //the austere quality of life in the convent.// ||

I put this word in because I didn't know what it meant and I wanted to get a better understanding.