spartan
5
7.7
- adjective
- /ˈspɑrtən/
:
espartano
- Her grandmother had lived a simple, Spartan life.
- spartan life
So it's a very, you know, Spartan, as we say, sort of environment.
- So it's a very, you know, Spartan, as we say, sort of environment.
- Like, I'm a really Spartan dude.
- I'm sure we all have a image in our head that's very Spartan.
- Consumer Reports said this is the cheapest all electric car available, but the trade off is it's slow, clumsy, stiff riding and Spartan inside.
- When you are working, you keep the Spartan phone with you, then there's no distraction, no attraction to be checking your phone all the time.
Examples
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The room was spartan and bare, but perfectly clean, as were the bedclothes.
Fiction book (1999) -
Like all monks, he led a spartan life funded by small donations.
Academic text (2007) -
So it's a very, you know, Spartan, as we say, sort of environment.
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You know, you need to lead more Spartan life anyway.
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The furniture is very plain and there is a spartan quality about the house.
Fiction book (1995) -
In Rome, he lived a Spartan life, took care of his two adopted children, and wrote.
Academic text (2008) -
She's in a spartan room, like a monk's cell.
Fiction book (1998) -
The Park Guest House was part of the ashram and had a Spartan attitude toward smoking, liquor, and human weaknesses in general.
Fiction book (1993) -
Matteo lives on the 5th floor, which, in European terms, means the 6th, in a spartan aerie in Tuscany.
Fiction book (1999) -
After joining the monastery, he adopted a spartan lifestyle, shunning luxury and wealth.
Synonyms
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4.2
Very strict and harsh when judging or punishing people
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8.2
Living simply and avoiding comfort or luxury
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8.8
Having strict control of wants and no luxuries
Showing strict self-control and avoiding pleasure for religious reasons
Antonyms
How Austere
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Spartan comes from the Greek city Sparta, whose people were famous for living with little comfort and strict self-control, almost like a life of training. So to be spartan today means to live 'simply' and avoid 'luxury'.