Spartan (?.)
- Apostolic
- Encratic
- Laconian
- Lenten
- Pythagorean
- Rechabite
- Shaker
- Spartanic
- Stoic
- abbreviated
- abridged
- abstemious
- abstinent
- accepting
- aposiopestic
- armed with patience
- ascetic
- astringent
- austere
- authoritarian
- bald
- bare
- brief
- brusque
- candid
- celibate
- chaste
- clam
- clipped
- close
- common
- commonplace
- compact
- compendious
- compressed
- concise
- condensed
- continent
- contracted
- controlled
- crisp
- curt
- cut
- demanding
- direct
- disciplined
- docked
- dour
- dry
- dull
- dwarfed
- dwarfish
- elliptic
- endurant
- enduring
- epigrammatic
- exacting
- exigent
- exiguous
- forbearing
- frank
- frugal
- fruitarian
- gnomic
- grim
- hard
- harsh
- homely
- homespun
- impoverished
- indulgent
- inornate
- jejune
- laconic
- lean
- lenient
- limited
- long-suffering
- longanimous
- man of iron
- matter-of-fact
- meager
- mean
- meticulous
- miserly
- narrow
- natural
- neat
- nephalistic
- niggardly
- on the wagon
- open
- paltry
- parsimonious
- patient
- patient as Job
- persevering
- philosophical
- pithy
- plain
- plain-speaking
- plain-spoken
- pointed
- poor
- prosaic
- prosing
- prosy
- pruned
- puny
- pure
- reserved
- rigid
- rigorous
- rugged
- rustic
- scant
- scanty
- scrawny
- scrimp
- scrimpy
- self-controlled
- self-denying
- sententious
- severe
- sexually abstinent
- short
- short and sweet
- shortened
- simple
- simple-speaking
- skimp
- skimpy
- slender
- slight
- slim
- small
- sober
- spare
- sparing
- stark
- starvation
- stern
- stingy
- stinted
- stoic
- straightforward
- straitened
- strict
- stringent
- stunted
- subsistence
- succinct
- summary
- sworn off
- synopsized
- taciturn
- teetotal
- terse
- thin
- tight
- to the point
- tolerant
- tolerating
- tolerative
- tough
- truncated
- unadorned
- unaffected
- understanding
- unelaborate
- unfancy
- unfussy
- unimaginative
- unnourishing
- unnutritious
- unornate
- unpoetical
- unsparing
- unvarnished
- vegetarian
- watered
- watery
Earth! render back from out thy breast
A remnant of our Spartan dead!
Of the three hundred grant but three
To make a new Thermopylae.
