spartan
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
- Click any word to expand it.
Senses
Sense 1 adjective
resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity
spartan courage
Related & opposite
- resolute similar to
Sense 2 adjective
unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment
a parent severe to the pitch of hostility
Related & opposite
- rigorousness derivation
- nonindulgent similar to
Sense 3 adjective
practicing great self-denial
Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it
Related & opposite
- austerity derivation
- abstainer derivation
- abstemious similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | resolute |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | rigorousness |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | nonindulgent |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | austerity |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | abstainer |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | abstemious |