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  • 61severe — Synonyms and related words: Draconian, Herculean, Siberian, Spartan, Spartanic, abrupt, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, abstruse, acerbic, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acute, afflictive, aggressive, agonizing, algid, aloof, arbitrary …

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  • 62simple — Synonyms and related words: Attic, Bohemian, Ciceronian, Mickey Mouse, Spartan, a certain, absolute, aesthetic, affable, amateur, an, any, any one, arrested, artistic, artless, ascetic, asinine, atomic, austere, authentic, awkward, babbling,… …

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  • 63sober — Synonyms and related words: Quaker colored, Spartan, abstaining, abstentious, abstinent, acier, aristocratic, ascetic, ashen, ashy, august, austere, awe inspiring, balanced, bald, bare, blackish, bland, calm, candid, canescent, cinereous,… …

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  • 64spare — Synonyms and related words: Lenten, Scotch, Spartan, abandon, abjure, absolve, abstain, abstain from, abstemious, accessory, additional, afford, agent, allow, alternate, alternative, amnesty, analogy, ancillary, angular, another, as a bonus,… …

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  • 65staid — Synonyms and related words: arid, barren, calm, collected, composed, cool, decorous, demure, dignified, dry, dull, earnest, earthbound, formal, frowning, grave, grim, grim faced, grim visaged, infecund, infertile, literal, long faced, moderate,… …

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  • 66stark — Synonyms and related words: Spartan, absolute, absolutely, altogether, arrant, ascetic, austere, bald, bare, barren, basic, blasted, bleak, blessed, blunt, candid, chaste, classical, clean, clear, clearly, cold, common, commonplace, complete,… …

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  • 67stolid — Synonyms and related words: aloof, apathetic, arid, at rest, barren, blunt, bored, bovine, calm, careless, cloistered, cool, dense, detached, disinterested, dispassionate, distant, doltish, dry, dull, dumb, dwindling, earthbound, ebbing, even… …

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  • 68straightforward — Synonyms and related words: Attic, Ciceronian, Mickey Mouse, Spartan, aboveboard, apparent, artless, ascetic, austere, bald, bare, barefaced, bluff, blunt, broad, brusque, candid, casual, chaste, classic, clean cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear …

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  • 69stuffy — Synonyms and related words: Quakerish, Victorian, accordant, airless, anal, arid, arrogant, authoritarian, bad, bad smelling, barren, bigot, bigoted, blah, blank, bloated, bloodless, bombastic, borne, bourgeois, breathless, breezeless,… …

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  • 70tiresome — Synonyms and related words: aggravating, annoying, bland, boresome, boring, bothering, bothersome, burdensome, common, commonplace, difficult, disagreeable, disturbing, draining, drudging, dull, exasperating, exhausting, fatiguesome, fatiguing,… …

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