spartan

Adjective

• 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
    

• 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
    

• resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity
  • spartan courage
    

• of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people

Noun

• a resident of Sparta

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  ascetic , ascetical , austere , severe , Spartan