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| Main Entry: |
spartan
 [spahr-tn] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | economical |
| Synonyms: | austere, brave, courageous, disciplined, doughty, frugal, hardy, laconic, plain, rigorous, simple, undaunted |
| Antonyms: | luxurious, opulent |
| Main Entry: | austere |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grim, barren |
| Synonyms: | bald, bare, bare-bones, bleak, clean, dour, plain, primitive, rustic, severe, simple, spare, spartan, stark, subdued, unadorned, unembellished, vanilla |
| Antonyms: | extravagant, luxurious |
| Main Entry: | courageous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brave, bold |
| Synonyms: | Spartan, Trojan, adventuresome, adventurous, assured, audacious, cool, daredevil, daring, dauntless, doughty, fearless, fiery, fire-eating, gallant, game, gritty, gutsy, hardy, heroic, high-spirited, impavid, indomitable, intrepid, lionhearted, martial, nervy, plucky, red-blooded, resolute, stalwart, stand tall, stouthearted, strong, tenacious, tough, unafraid, undaunted, valiant, valorous, venturesome, venturous |
| Antonyms: | cowardly, faint-hearted, fearful, fearing, meek, shy, timid, weak |
Example Sentences
- Sichuan food served in a spartan storefront setting.
- Spartan facilities in some cases, despite the money poured into higher education.
- His no-frills approach will include spartan interiors and pay-as-you-go restaurants.
| Main Entry: | frugal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | economical |
| Synonyms: | Spartan, abstemious, canny, careful, chary, conserving, discreet, meager, meticulous, mingy, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penny-wise, preserving, provident, prudent, saving, scrimping, sparing, stingy, thrifty, tight, tightwad, unwasteful, wary |
| Notes: | frugal refers more directly to practicing economy in the course of shopping for goods or services, whereas thrifty applies more to the preservation of funds |
| Antonyms: | generous, lavish, spendthrifty, uneconomical, wasteful |
| Main Entry: | plain |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unembellished, basic |
| Synonyms: | austere, bare, bare bones, clean, discreet, dry, modest, muted, pure, restrained, severe, simple, spartan, stark, stripped down, unvarnished, vanilla |
| Antonyms: | decorated, dressed-up, embellished, formal, ornate |
| Main Entry: | rough |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | basic, incomplete |
| Synonyms: | austere, crude, cursory, formless, hard, imperfect, raw, rough-and-ready, roughhewn, rudimentary, shapeless, sketchy, spartan, uncompleted, uncut, undressed, unfashioned, unfinished, unformed, unhewn, unpolished, unprocessed, unrefined, unwrought |
| Antonyms: | accurate, complete, definite, precise |
| Main Entry: | simple |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncluttered, natural |
| Synonyms: | Spartan, absolute, austere, classic, clean, discreet, elementary, folksy, homely, homey, humble, inelaborate, lowly, mere, modest, not complex, open and shut, plain, pure, pure and simple, rustic, sheer, single, unadorned, unadulterated, unaffected, unalloyed, unblended, uncombined, uncomplicated, uncompounded, undecorated, unelaborate, unembellished, unfussy, unmitigated, unmixed, unornamented, unostentatious, unpretentious, unqualified, vanilla |
| Antonyms: | cluttered, decorated, embellished, jumbled, ornate |
| Main Entry: | valorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | courageous |
| Synonyms: | Spartan, adventuresome, adventurous, bold, brave, chivalrous, daredevil, daring, dauntless, fearless, gallant, game, gritty, gutsy, heroic, lionhearted, nervy, plucky, stalwart, stouthearted, strong, tough, unafraid, undaunted, valiant, venturous |
| Main Entry: | unperfected |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rough |
| Synonyms: | austere, crude, cursory, formless, hard, imperfect, preliminary, raw*, rough-and-ready, roughhewn, rudimentary, shapeless, sketchy, spartan, tentative, uncompleted, uncut, undressed, unfashioned, unfinished, unformed, unhewn, unpolished, unprocessed, unrefined, unwrought |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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