spartan

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adjective

1. resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity
- spartan courage
• Similar to:
resolute
2. unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment
- "a parent severe to the pitch of hostility"- H.G.Wells
- a hefty six-footer with a rather severe mien
- a strict disciplinarian
- a Spartan upbringing
• Syn:
severe
• Similar to:
nonindulgent, strict
• Derivationally related forms:
severeness (for: severe), severity (for: severe)
3. practicing great self-denial
- "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James
- a desert nomad's austere life
- a spartan diet
- a spartan existence
• Syn:
ascetic, ascetical, austere
• Similar to:
abstemious
• Derivationally related forms:
austerity (for: austere), ascetic (for: ascetical), ascetic (for: ascetic)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  ascetic, ascetical, austere, severe, Spartan