Stark |
Sober |
Rigid |
Stern |
SPARE |
Harsh |
Simple |
Severe |
Spartan |
Unadorned |
No-frills |
Cheerless |
Unbending |
Abstemious |
Bare-bones |
Forbidding |
Grave ____ |
Astringent |
Hardly lavish |
Unembellished |
Stern and cold |
Lacking luxury |
Uncompromising |
Severely simple |
Somber and grave |
Hardly luxurious |
Tight, budgetwise |
Like monastic life |
Like monastery life |
Like Spartan living |
Stern in appearance |
Far from comfortable |
Grim — USA tree (anag) |
Like Brutalist architecture |
Severe or strict in attitude |
Like many budgets, these days |
Strict, like life in a monastery |