Synonyms for spartan
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Austere — lacking in decoration and luxury
austere, unadorned, simple, basic, severe, bare, strict, plain, chaste, unvarnished, inornate, unembellished, unornamented
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Lacking in decoration and luxury.
After ten years as a fashion designer in the rough-and-tumble Garment District, Eloise left New York for the spartan but serene life of a farmer's wife.
- adj. 2
Austere, frugal, characterized by self-denial.
I went on the retreat to the monastery, thinking I would be sleeping in a spartan cell, only to discover a simple but comfortable bedroom.
Example sentences
- basic That game is easy, once you learn the basic rules.
- bare I saw my uncle kill a scorpion with his bare hand.
- austere The Wadden Sea is a landscape of austere beauty.
- unadorned It was a small, unadorned room.
- laconic "The game's afoot" is Holmes's laconic call to action.
- abstemious The professor was famous for his abstemious meals.
By length
- 4 letters
- bare1
- 5 letters
- basic2, plain1
- 6 letters
- simple2, severe2, strict1, chaste1
- 7 letters
- austere2, ascetic3, laconic3
- 8 letters
- inornate
- 9 letters
- unadorned3, ascetical
- 10 letters
- abstemious
- 11 letters
- unvarnished3
- 12 letters
- unornamented
- 13 letters
- unembellished
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (basic2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- spartiate