| Main Entry: | spartan |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | economical |
Synonyms: |
austere, brave, courageous, disciplined, doughty, frugal, hardy, laconic, plain, rigorous, simple, undaunted |
Antonyms: |
luxurious, opulent |
| Main Entry: | ascetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | self-denying |
Synonyms: |
Spartan, abstaining, abstemious, abstinent, austere, disciplined, puritanical, strict |
| 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 |
| 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 |