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Meanings of spartan in English
Synonyms
Examples for "austere"
Examples for "austere"
1
He was an austere man, quite Czech, quite middle European, quite serious.
2
Despite his commitment to activism, friends say he is far from austere.
3
Junpei did not need much money to support his austere bachelor's lifestyle.
4
Her face in the moonbeams looked austere and almost spectral in outline.
5
A private room for each of us, austere but handsome, quite comfortable.
1
A fearful rate of labor; a strange, grave, quaint, ascetic, rigorous life.
2
The puissant ascetic, passed the middle portion of the night in sleep.
3
The baron would have embraced his brother; but the gloomy ascetic forbade.
4
The puissant ascetic resembled the Moon himself in his behaviour to all.
5
A few weeks ago the ascetic in Iglesias might have taken alarm.
1
Have we indeed outstripped the warrior and passed the ascetical saint?
2
But this seriousness was not ascetical or moroseful.
3
This contact strengthened Father's naturally ascetical temperament.
4
Some affected an ascetical simplicity of dress, and yet hugged their purses where their Bibles should have been.
5
He had just been reading the Saint's works, and was much attracted by his ascetical attitude towards the world.
Usage of spartan in English
1
Most, however, are discouraged by the spartan dietary discipline required of adherents.
2
The room was spartan, the walls undecorated and the floor without covering.
3
The spartan interior in the test aircraft is designed or certification purposes.
4
The gym and classrooms for its 130 children are spartan and frayed.
5
The pub itself is unremarkable -a neat but fairly spartan space.
6
There were just enough decorative touches to keep it from appearing spartan.
7
But a brighter and less spartan cover appeared in a rival firm.
8
They were sitting in a rather spartan wardroom in the vessel's superstructure.
9
Almost all farmers are using machines, Kharade said in her spartan two-room house.
10
One of the reasons she loved her Army days was the spartan barracks.
11
The interior of the house was bare to the point of being spartan.
12
They are much more spartan than the two shown to tourists, Melvin said.
13
He still had no idea why he was there in the spartan office.
14
It was a startling change of pace to the spartan lifestyle at Luna.
15
The barracks were typically army, grey, spartan, uninviting and ugly; my spirits sank.
16
The boss's office was just as spartan as the front room.
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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