Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigThe phrase "austere individual" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a person who is strict, severe, or has a simple and unadorned lifestyle or demeanor.
Example: "The austere individual preferred a life free from luxury and excess, focusing instead on discipline and simplicity."
Alternatives: "stern person" or "severe character".
Exact(1)
Merriam-Webster defines it as A situation in which there is not much money and it is spent only on things that are necessaryOr Enforced or extreme economyAn austere individual would be someone who lives within their budget: that is, who spends less than their annual income.
Similar(59)
A painting of St. John of Capistrano (Louvre, Paris) of 1459 is typical of Bartolomeo's austere and individual style.
Wilderness medicine involves the treatment of individuals in remote, austere environments.
Prehospital care under other remote, austere conditions may be similar, whereby an individual may be forced to continue purposeful actions despite traumatic injury.
But austerity seems much less austere if you are old.
Third, in crucial texts Plato's moral ideals appear both austere and self-abnegating: the soul is to remain aloof from the pleasures of the body; communal life demands the subordination of individual wishes and aims.
Since 1963 she has published seventeen novels – elegant, austere elegiac books that explore the lives of individuals, especialIy Indian women, circumscribed by societal limits.
"Each individual poem is pruned back to an austere and beautiful knot of pain," Michael Hoffmann wrote in the London Review of Books in his review of Mr. Hamilton's "Fifty Poems" (Faber & Faber, 1988).
Quirkiness is inevitable in distance running, an individual sport in which athletes' lives are often austere and remote.
Born in Bergen in 1943, Jensen grew up in an austere post-war Marshall-planned, sugar-rationed society, with limited scope for individual self-expression.
In Hals's group portraits too, the spontaneous joie de vivre that is evident in the individual portraits is felt to a degree that revolutionizes the hitherto austere genre.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com