Austere
Austere adjective - Providing only the essentials and nothing fancy or luxurious.
Usage example: for the private office of the CEO of the large corporation, the room is unexpectedly austere
Simple is a synonym for austere in plain topic. In some cases you can use "Simple" instead the word "Austere" as an adjective or a noun, when it comes to topics like property, severe, grim, strict.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Strangely, his fashion sense was much more austere and simpler than the gaudy nobles and fops before and after him, he preferred a simple white on black look and a streamlined silhouette.
Source: The Dandy -
Comically Missing the Point: Dom's coronation breakfast is supposed to be the same as the simple, austere one that the puritan, anti-waste religious figure Arte Sadhim ate before he became Lord of Earth.menu A quarter-loaf of brown bread, a strip of salted fish, an apple and a glass of water.
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