as in austere
providing only the essentials and nothing fancy or luxurious
accommodations on the windjammer are spartan but clean and comfortable nevertheless
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spartan
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Lloyd’s worlds are shiny brutalist black boxes, at once austere and conspicuously expensive, and Van Hove’s are if anything even more severe.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2025 -
Originally attributed to Pieter Pourbus, a Flemish Renaissance artist who worked in Bruges during the 16th century, the painting depicts an austere man and his young daughter in matching ruffs.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Martha Stewart and Mila Kunis carried ones that looked like this simple option.—
Clint Davis,
People.com,
23 Mar. 2025
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Murena Pixel Tablet Apps Switching away from Google's flavor of Android will always result in an app gap, and there's no simple way around it.—
Ewan Spence,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The George Foreman Grill is a monument to no-frills industrial design.—
John DeVore,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2025
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Beyond that the Eufy is a no-frills robot vacuum, with 100 minutes of battery life, a remote control, quiet suction power, but no voice or phone functionality.—
Carlos Mejia,
PCMAG,
25 Mar. 2025
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The numbers will likely be in stark contrast to US rival Tesla Inc., which only makes EVs and whose first-quarter sales may be as low as 340,000, according to some analyst estimates, or possibly around the 377,000 mark.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
1 Apr. 2025
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The lawsuit charges that the money was allocated during the coronavirus pandemic, but Kennedy declared that the funds were no longer needed because the pandemic was over. Senate President Pro Tempore Martin Looney of New Haven and other Democrats spoke directly in stark terms about the cuts.—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
1 Apr. 2025
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“Spartan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spartan. Accessed 8 Apr. 2025.
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