Exact Match:
- abstinent
- self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink; "not totally abstinent but abstemious"
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- Lenten
collapse - of or relating to or suitable for Lent; "lenten food" related words >
- Apostolic,
- Encratic,
- Pythagorean,
- Rechabite,
- Shaker,
- Spartan,
- Stoic,
- abstemious,
- abstinent,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- celibate,
- chaste,
- continent,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- exiguous,
- fasting,
- frugal,
- fruitarian,
- impoverished,
- jejune,
- lean,
- limited,
- meager,
- mean,
- miserly,
- narrow,
- nephalistic,
- niggardly,
- on the wagon,
- paltry,
- parsimonious,
- poor,
- puny,
- quadragesimal,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimpy,
- sexually abstinent,
- skimp,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- spare,
- sparing,
- starvation,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- sworn off,
- teetotal,
- thin,
- uneating,
- unfed,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- vegetarian,
- watered,
- watery
- continent
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- the European mainland; "Englishmen like to visit the Continent but they wouldn't like to live there"
- one of the large landmasses of the earth; "there are seven continents"; "pioneers had to cross the continent on foot"
- having control over urination and defecation related words >
- Africa,
- America,
- Antipodes,
- Apostolic,
- Asia,
- Asia Major,
- Asia Minor,
- Australasia,
- East,
- Eastern Hemisphere,
- Encratic,
- Eurasia,
- Europe,
- Far East,
- Lenten,
- Levant,
- Middle East,
- Near East,
- New World,
- Occident,
- Oceania,
- Old World,
- Orient,
- Platonic,
- Pythagorean,
- Rechabite,
- Shaker,
- Spartan,
- Stoic,
- West,
- Western Hemisphere,
- abstemious,
- abstentious,
- abstinent,
- ascetic,
- bridled,
- celibate,
- chaste,
- curbed,
- down under,
- eastland,
- fruitarian,
- inhibited,
- intact,
- landmass,
- maidenly,
- nephalistic,
- on the wagon,
- pure,
- restrained,
- sexually abstinent,
- sober,
- sworn off,
- teetotal,
- temperate,
- the old country,
- vegetarian,
- vestal,
- virgin,
- virginal
- abstemious
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- sparing in consumption of especially food and drink; "the pleasures of the table, never of much consequence to one naturally abstemious"- John Galsworthy
- marked by temperance in indulgence; "abstemious with the use of adverbs"; "a light eater"; "a light smoker"; "ate a light supper" related words >
- Apostolic,
- Encratic,
- Lenten,
- Pythagorean,
- Rechabite,
- Shaker,
- Spartan,
- Stoic,
- abstentious,
- abstinent,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- celibate,
- chaste,
- continent,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- exiguous,
- frugal,
- fruitarian,
- impoverished,
- jejune,
- lean,
- limited,
- meager,
- mean,
- miserly,
- narrow,
- nephalistic,
- niggardly,
- on the wagon,
- paltry,
- parsimonious,
- poor,
- puny,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimpy,
- self-abnegating,
- self-denying,
- sexually abstinent,
- skimp,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- sober,
- spar,
- spare,
- sparing,
- starvation,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- sworn off,
- teetotal,
- temperate,
- thin,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- vegetarian,
- watered,
- watery
- abstainer
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- a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages
- someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline related words >
- Albigensian,
- Apostolici,
- Catharist,
- Encratite,
- Franciscan,
- Pythagorean,
- Pythagorist,
- Rechabite,
- Sabbatarian,
- Shaker,
- Trappist,
- Waldensian,
- abstinent,
- anchorite,
- ascetic,
- banian,
- bhikshu,
- dervish,
- fakir,
- flagellant,
- fruitarian,
- gymnosophist,
- hermit,
- hydropot,
- mendicant,
- nephalist,
- puritan,
- sannyasi,
- teetotaler,
- teetotalist,
- vegetarian,
- water-drinker,
- yogi,
- yogin
- vestal
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- a chaste woman
- of or relating to Vesta; "vestal virgin" related words >
- celibate
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- an unmarried person who has taken a religious vow of chastity
- abstaining from sexual intercourse; "celibate priests" related words >
- Apostolic,
- Encratic,
- Lenten,
- Platonic,
- Pythagorean,
- Rechabite,
- Shaker,
- Spartan,
- Stoic,
- abbacomes,
- abbot,
- absolute,
- abstemious,
- abstinent,
- acarpous,
- alone,
- arid,
- ascetic,
- azygous,
- bachelor,
- barren,
- beadsman,
- brother,
- caloyer,
- celibataire,
- cenobite,
- chaste,
- childless,
- continent,
- conventual,
- conventual prior,
- desert,
- desolate,
- drained,
- dried-up,
- dry,
- exhausted,
- fallow,
- first and last,
- friar,
- fruitarian,
- fruitless,
- gaunt,
- gelded,
- grand prior,
- hermit,
- hieromonach,
- immaculate,
- impair,
- impotent,
- ineffectual,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- intact,
- issueless,
- jejune,
- lay abbot,
- lay brother,
- leached,
- lone,
- maidenly,
- mendicant,
- menopausal,
- misogamic,
- misogamist,
- misogynist,
- misogynous,
- monachal,
- monastic,
- monk,
- monkish,
- nephalistic,
- nonfertile,
- nonproducing,
- nonproductive,
- nonprolific,
- nun,
- odd,
- on the wagon,
- one and only,
- only,
- only-begotten,
- palmer,
- pilgrim,
- pillar saint,
- pillarist,
- priest,
- prior,
- pure,
- religieux,
- religious,
- sexually abstinent,
- sine prole,
- single,
- singular,
- sole,
- spinster,
- sterile,
- stylite,
- sucked dry,
- sworn off,
- teemless,
- teetotal,
- uncultivated,
- undefiled,
- unfertile,
- unfruitful,
- unique,
- unmarried,
- unpaired,
- unplowed,
- unproductive,
- unprolific,
- unrepeated,
- unsown,
- unsullied,
- untilled,
- unwed,
- vegetarian,
- vestal,
- virgin,
- virginal,
- virtuous,
- waste,
- wasted,
- without issue
- self-denying
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- willing to deprive yourself related words >
- Albigensian,
- Catharist,
- Franciscan,
- Sabbatarian,
- Trappist,
- Waldensian,
- abstinent,
- altruistic,
- anchoritic,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- committed,
- consecrated,
- dedicated,
- devoted,
- disinterested,
- eremitic,
- flagellant,
- humble,
- mendicant,
- modest,
- puritanical,
- rigoristic,
- sacrificing,
- self-abasing,
- self-abnegating,
- self-abnegatory,
- self-devoted,
- self-effacing,
- self-forgetful,
- self-immolating,
- self-neglectful,
- self-neglecting,
- self-renouncing,
- self-sacrificing,
- self-unconscious,
- selfless,
- unacquisitive,
- unpossessive,
- unpretentious,
- unselfish,
- unsparing of self,
- wedded to poverty
- vegetarian
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- eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products related words >
- Apostolic,
- Apostolici,
- Brillat-Savarin,
- Encratic,
- Encratite,
- Lenten,
- Lucullus,
- Pythagorean,
- Pythagorist,
- Rechabite,
- Shaker,
- Spartan,
- Stoic,
- abstainer,
- abstemious,
- abstinent,
- ascetic,
- banian,
- board-and-roomer,
- boarder,
- bon vivant,
- botanic,
- bulbous,
- cannibal,
- cannibalistic,
- carnivore,
- carnivorous,
- celibate,
- cereal,
- chaste,
- commensal,
- connoisseur of food,
- consumer,
- continent,
- dietetic,
- diner,
- diner-out,
- dining,
- eater,
- eater-out,
- eating,
- epicure,
- farinaceous,
- feeder,
- feeding,
- flesh-eater,
- flesh-eating,
- fruitarian,
- fruitlike,
- fruity,
- gastronome,
- gastronomic,
- glutton,
- gluttonous,
- gourmand,
- gourmet,
- grain-eater,
- grain-eating,
- graminivore,
- graminivorous,
- granivore,
- granivorous,
- grass-eating,
- gymnosophist,
- herbaceous,
- herbal,
- herbivore,
- herbivorous,
- herbose,
- herbous,
- herby,
- high liver,
- hungry mouth,
- hydropot,
- insect-eating,
- insectivorous,
- lactovegetarian,
- leguminose,
- leguminous,
- luncher,
- man-eater,
- man-eating,
- meat-eater,
- meat-eating,
- mensal,
- mouth,
- nephalist,
- nephalistic,
- nourishing,
- nutritious,
- omnivore,
- omnivorous,
- omophagist,
- omophagous,
- on the wagon,
- pantophagist,
- pantophagous,
- phytivorous,
- phytophage,
- phytophagous,
- picnicker,
- plant-eater,
- plant-eating,
- plantlike,
- postprandial,
- prandial,
- predacean,
- predacious,
- preprandial,
- radicated,
- radiciform,
- radicular,
- rhizoid,
- rootlike,
- sexually abstinent,
- sworn off,
- teetotal,
- teetotaler,
- teetotalist,
- trencherman,
- tuberous,
- vegetable,
- vegetable-eating,
- vegetal,
- vegetational,
- vegetative,
- water-drinker,
- weedy
- Sabbatarian
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- one who observes Saturday as the Sabbath (as in Judaism)
- pertaining to the Sabbath and its observance related words >
- Albigensian,
- Catharist,
- Franciscan,
- High-Churchist,
- Trappist,
- Waldensian,
- abstainer,
- abstinent,
- anchorite,
- anchoritic,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- bhikshu,
- bigoted,
- creedbound,
- dervish,
- dogmatic,
- eremitic,
- evangelical,
- fakir,
- flagellant,
- formalist,
- formularist,
- formulist,
- fundamentalist,
- hermit,
- hidebound,
- hyperorthodox,
- literalist,
- literalistic,
- liturgist,
- mendicant,
- precisianist,
- precisianistic,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanical,
- rigoristic,
- ritualist,
- sacramentarian,
- sannyasi,
- self-denying,
- staunch,
- straitlaced,
- strict,
- wedded to poverty,
- yogi,
- yogin
- Platonic
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- free from physical desire; "platonic love"
- of or relating to or characteristic of Plato or his philosophy; "Platonic dialogues" related words >
- Augustinian,
- Averroist,
- Berkeleian,
- Cartesian,
- Hegelian,
- Heideggerian,
- Heraclitean,
- Humean,
- Husserlian,
- Kantian,
- Leibnizian,
- Neo-Hegelian,
- Neo-Pythagorean,
- Neoplatonic,
- Neoplatonistic,
- Parmenidean,
- Peripatetic,
- Platonistic,
- Pyrrhonic,
- Pythagorean,
- Sartrian,
- Schellingian,
- Schopenhauerian,
- Scotist,
- Socratic,
- Spencerian,
- Thomist,
- Thomistic,
- Viconian,
- Wittgensteinian,
- abstinent,
- animist,
- animistic,
- celibate,
- continent,
- idealist,
- idealistic,
- immaterialist,
- intact,
- maidenly,
- panpsychist,
- panpsychistic,
- pre-Socratic,
- solipsistic,
- spiritualist,
- spiritualistic,
- vestal,
- virgin,
- virginal
- Apostolici,
- Brillat-Savarin,
- Encratite,
- Lucullus,
- Pythagorean,
- Pythagorist,
- Rechabite,
- Shaker,
- abstainer,
- abstinent,
- ascetic,
- banian,
- board-and-roomer,
- boarder,
- bon vivant,
- cannibal,
- carnivore,
- connoisseur of food,
- consumer,
- diner,
- diner-out,
- eater,
- eater-out,
- epicure,
- feeder,
- flesh-eater,
- gastronome,
- glutton,
- gourmand,
- gourmet,
- grain-eater,
- graminivore,
- granivore,
- gymnosophist,
- herbivore,
- high liver,
- hungry mouth,
- hydropot,
- lactovegetarian,
- luncher,
- man-eater,
- meat-eater,
- mouth,
- nephalist,
- omnivore,
- omophagist,
- pantophagist,
- phytophage,
- picnicker,
- plant-eater,
- predacean,
- teetotaler,
- teetotalist,
- trencherman,
- vegetarian,
- water-drinker
- chaste
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- morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse); "a holy woman innocent and chaste"
- abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse
- pure and simple in design or style; "a chaste border of conventionalized flowers" related words >
- Apostolic,
- Attic,
- Ciceronian,
- Encratic,
- Lenten,
- Pythagorean,
- Rechabite,
- Shaker,
- Spartan,
- Stoic,
- abase,
- absolute,
- abstemious,
- abstinent,
- aesthetic,
- afflict,
- artistic,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- bare,
- basic,
- becoming,
- beyond all praise,
- blotless,
- castigate,
- celibate,
- chasten,
- chastise,
- choice,
- classic,
- classical,
- clean,
- cleanly,
- clear,
- common,
- commonplace,
- continent,
- correct,
- decent,
- decorous,
- defectless,
- direct,
- discipline,
- easy,
- elegant,
- elementary,
- essential,
- ethical,
- everyday,
- excellent,
- faultless,
- finished,
- flawless,
- fruitarian,
- fundamental,
- garden,
- garden-variety,
- good,
- graceful,
- gracile,
- guiltless,
- homely,
- homespun,
- homogeneous,
- household,
- humble,
- humiliate,
- ideal,
- immaculate,
- impeccable,
- in good taste,
- indefectible,
- indefective,
- indivisible,
- infallible,
- innocent,
- irreducible,
- irreproachable,
- just right,
- limpid,
- lucid,
- maidenly,
- matter-of-fact,
- mere,
- modest,
- monolithic,
- moral,
- natural,
- neat,
- nephalistic,
- nondescript,
- of a piece,
- of choice,
- of quality,
- on the wagon,
- ordinary,
- peerless,
- pellucid,
- perfect,
- perspicuous,
- plain,
- pleasing,
- polished,
- primal,
- primary,
- proper,
- prosaic,
- prosy,
- pure,
- pure and simple,
- pure in heart,
- purehearted,
- quiet,
- refined,
- restrained,
- righteous,
- round,
- seemly,
- severe,
- sexually abstinent,
- sexually innocent,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- single,
- sinless,
- snowy,
- spare,
- spotless,
- stainless,
- stark,
- straightforward,
- subdued,
- sworn off,
- taintless,
- tasteful,
- teetotal,
- terse,
- trim,
- try,
- unadorned,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unblemished,
- unblotted,
- uncluttered,
- uncontaminated,
- uncorrupt,
- undecorated,
- undefiled,
- understated,
- undifferenced,
- undifferentiated,
- unembellished,
- unfaultable,
- uniform,
- unlabored,
- unmixed,
- unobtrusive,
- unsoiled,
- unspotted,
- unstained,
- unsullied,
- untainted,
- untarnished,
- vegetarian,
- virgin,
- virginal,
- virtuous,
- well-chosen,
- white,
- wholesome,
- workaday,
- workday
- virginal
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- a legless rectangular harpsichord; played (usually by women) in the 16th and 17th centuries
- untouched or undefiled; "nor is there anything more virginal than the shimmer of young foliage"- L.P.Smith
- characteristic of a virgin or virginity; "virginal white dresses" related words >
- Platonic,
- abstinent,
- artless,
- bachelorlike,
- budding,
- callow,
- celibate,
- continent,
- dewy,
- ever-new,
- evergreen,
- firsthand,
- fledgling,
- fresh,
- green,
- growing,
- husbandless,
- immature,
- impubic,
- in the raw,
- inartificial,
- inexperienced,
- ingenuous,
- innocent,
- intact,
- juicy,
- maiden,
- maidenly,
- minor,
- naive,
- native,
- natural,
- neoteric,
- nestling,
- new,
- new-fledged,
- old-maidish,
- original,
- pristine,
- raw,
- ripening,
- sappy,
- sempervirent,
- single,
- sole,
- spinsterish,
- spinsterlike,
- spinsterly,
- spouseless,
- tender,
- unadult,
- unbeaten,
- underage,
- undeveloped,
- unfledged,
- unformed,
- unhandled,
- unlicked,
- unmarried,
- unmellowed,
- unripe,
- unseasoned,
- unspoiled,
- unsullied,
- untapped,
- untouched,
- untried,
- untrodden,
- unused,
- unwed,
- unwedded,
- vernal,
- vestal,
- virgin,
- young
- Spartan
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- a resident of Sparta
- resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity; "spartan courage"
- of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people related words >
- 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
- Platonic,
- abstinent,
- bachelorlike,
- beardless,
- boyish,
- boylike,
- calflike,
- callow,
- celibate,
- childish,
- childlike,
- coltish,
- continent,
- dewy,
- distaff,
- ever-new,
- evergreen,
- female,
- feminine,
- firsthand,
- fledgling,
- fresh,
- gentlewomanlike,
- girlish,
- girllike,
- green,
- gynecic,
- gynecoid,
- gynic,
- husbandless,
- immature,
- intact,
- kiddish,
- kittenish,
- ladylike,
- little-girlish,
- maiden,
- matronal,
- matronlike,
- matronly,
- muliebral,
- neoteric,
- nestling,
- new,
- old-maidish,
- original,
- petticoat,
- pristine,
- puerile,
- puplike,
- puppyish,
- puppylike,
- raw,
- sempervirent,
- single,
- sole,
- spinsterish,
- spinsterlike,
- spinsterly,
- spouseless,
- unbeaten,
- undeveloped,
- unfledged,
- unhandled,
- unmarried,
- untouched,
- untried,
- untrodden,
- unused,
- unwed,
- unwedded,
- vernal,
- vestal,
- virgin,
- virginal,
- womanish,
- womanlike,
- womanly,
- young
- puritanical
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- of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism related words >
- Albigensian,
- Catharist,
- Franciscan,
- Quakerish,
- Sabbatarian,
- Trappist,
- Victorian,
- Waldensian,
- abstinent,
- anchoritic,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- bigoted,
- censorious,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- conscientious,
- creedbound,
- critical,
- demure,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- dogmatic,
- dour,
- eremitic,
- evangelical,
- exacting,
- fastidious,
- firm,
- flagellant,
- fundamentalist,
- hard,
- hidebound,
- hyperorthodox,
- impliable,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- literalist,
- literalistic,
- mendicant,
- meticulous,
- mid-Victorian,
- muscle-bound,
- narrow,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- old-maidish,
- orthodox,
- overmodest,
- particular,
- perfectionistic,
- picky,
- precise,
- precisianist,
- precisianistic,
- priggish,
- prim,
- procrustean,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- relentless,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rockbound,
- sanctimonious,
- scrupulous,
- selective,
- self-denying,
- sensitive,
- smug,
- staunch,
- stiff,
- stiff-necked,
- straightlaced,
- straitlaced,
- strict,
- stubborn,
- stuffy,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding,
- wedded to poverty
- ascetic
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- 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"
- pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline; "ascetic practices" related words >
- Albigensian,
- Apostolic,
- Apostolici,
- Catharist,
- Diogenes,
- Encratic,
- Encratite,
- Franciscan,
- Hieronymian,
- Hieronymite,
- Lenten,
- Pythagorean,
- Pythagorist,
- Rechabite,
- Sabbatarian,
- Shaker,
- Spartan,
- Stoic,
- Timon of Athens,
- Trappist,
- Waldensian,
- abbacomes,
- abbot,
- abstainer,
- abstemious,
- abstinent,
- anchoress,
- anchorite,
- anchoritic,
- apologetic,
- astringent,
- atoning,
- austere,
- bald,
- banian,
- bare,
- beadsman,
- bedridden invalid,
- bhikshu,
- brother,
- caloyer,
- candid,
- celibate,
- cenobite,
- chaste,
- cleansing,
- cloistered monk,
- closet cynic,
- common,
- commonplace,
- compensational,
- compensatory,
- continent,
- conventual,
- conventual prior,
- dervish,
- desert fathers,
- desert saints,
- direct,
- disciplined,
- dry,
- dull,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- eremite,
- eremitic,
- exiguous,
- expiatory,
- fakir,
- flagellant,
- forbearing,
- frank,
- friar,
- frugal,
- fruitarian,
- grand prior,
- gymnosophist,
- hermit,
- hermitess,
- hieromonach,
- homebody,
- homely,
- homespun,
- hydropot,
- impoverished,
- invalid,
- isolationist,
- jejune,
- lay abbot,
- lay brother,
- lean,
- limited,
- loner,
- lustral,
- lustrational,
- lustrative,
- marabout,
- matter-of-fact,
- meager,
- mean,
- mendicant,
- miserly,
- monastic,
- monk,
- mortified,
- narrow,
- natural,
- neat,
- nephalist,
- nephalistic,
- niggardly,
- on the wagon,
- open,
- outcast,
- palmer,
- paltry,
- pariah,
- parsimonious,
- penitential,
- piacular,
- pilgrim,
- pillar saint,
- pillarist,
- plain,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- poor,
- prior,
- propitiatory,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- puny,
- pure,
- purgative,
- purgatorial,
- purifying,
- puritan,
- puritanical,
- reclamatory,
- recluse,
- recompensing,
- redeeming,
- redemptive,
- redressing,
- religieux,
- religious,
- reparative,
- reparatory,
- repentant,
- repenting,
- restitutional,
- restitutive,
- restitutory,
- restrained,
- righting,
- rigoristic,
- rustic,
- sannyasi,
- satisfactional,
- scant,
- scanty,
- schooled,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimpy,
- seclusionist,
- self-abasing,
- self-abnegating,
- self-denying,
- self-forgetful,
- selfless,
- severe,
- sexually abstinent,
- shut-in,
- simple,
- simple-speaking,
- skimp,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- sober,
- solitaire,
- solitary,
- solitudinarian,
- spare,
- sparing,
- squaring,
- stark,
- starvation,
- stay-at-home,
- stern,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- straightforward,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- stylite,
- subsistence,
- sworn off,
- teetotal,
- teetotaler,
- teetotalist,
- thin,
- trained,
- unadorned,
- unaffected,
- unimaginative,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- unpoetical,
- unvarnished,
- vegetarian,
- water-drinker,
- watered,
- watery,
- wedded to poverty,
- yogi,
- yogin
- temperate
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- not extreme in behavior; "temperate in his habits"; "a temperate response to an insult"; "temperate in his eating and drinking"
- (of weather or climate) free from extremes; mild; or characteristic of such weather or climate; "a temperate region"; "the temperate zones"; "temperate plants" related words >
- abstemious,
- abstentious,
- abstinent,
- aestival,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- bland,
- blood-hot,
- blood-warm,
- bracing,
- calid,
- calm,
- celibate,
- chaste,
- checked,
- chill,
- chilly,
- cold sober,
- composed,
- constant,
- continent,
- controlled,
- cool,
- coolish,
- curbed,
- disciplined,
- discreet,
- dispassionate,
- equable,
- equatorial,
- even,
- even-tempered,
- forbearing,
- fresh,
- frugal,
- genial,
- gentle,
- grave,
- imperturbable,
- indulgent,
- invigorating,
- judicious,
- luke,
- lukewarm,
- measured,
- mild,
- mild as milk,
- moderate,
- modest,
- nonviolent,
- pacifistic,
- peaceable,
- peaceful,
- prudent,
- puritanical,
- quiet,
- rational,
- reasonable,
- regulated,
- restrained,
- room-temperature,
- sane,
- sedate,
- self-denying,
- self-indulgent,
- self-possessed,
- self-restrained,
- sensible,
- serene,
- serious,
- sober,
- sober-minded,
- sobersided,
- soft,
- solemn,
- sparing,
- stable,
- staid,
- steady,
- stimulating,
- stinting,
- subtropical,
- summery,
- sunny,
- sunshiny,
- tame,
- teetotal,
- tepid,
- thermal,
- thermic,
- toasty,
- tranquil,
- tropical,
- undrunk,
- undrunken,
- unexcessive,
- unexcited,
- unextreme,
- unfrozen,
- unimpassioned,
- uninebriate,
- uninebrious,
- unintoxicated,
- unperturbed,
- unruffled,
- untipsy,
- warm,
- warm as toast,
- warmish
- mendicant
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- practicing beggary; "mendicant friars" related words >
- Albigensian,
- Catharist,
- Franciscan,
- Sabbatarian,
- Trappist,
- Waldensian,
- abbacomes,
- abbot,
- abstainer,
- abstinent,
- anchorite,
- anchoritic,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- beadsman,
- beggar,
- beggared,
- beggarly,
- begging,
- bereaved,
- bereft,
- bhikshu,
- brother,
- bum,
- bummer,
- cadger,
- cadging,
- caloyer,
- celibate,
- cenobite,
- conventual,
- conventual prior,
- coupon clippers,
- deprived,
- dervish,
- disadvantaged,
- drone,
- eremitic,
- fakir,
- flagellant,
- fleeced,
- freeloader,
- friar,
- ghettoized,
- grand prior,
- hermit,
- hieromonach,
- hobo,
- idle rich,
- impoverished,
- in need,
- in rags,
- in want,
- indigent,
- lay abbot,
- lay brother,
- leisure class,
- loafer,
- lounge lizard,
- lumpen proletariat,
- mendicant friar,
- mendicant order,
- monastic,
- monk,
- moocher,
- mooching,
- necessitous,
- needy,
- nonworker,
- on relief,
- out at elbows,
- palmer,
- panhandler,
- parasite,
- pauperized,
- petitionary,
- pilgrim,
- pillar saint,
- pillarist,
- poverty-stricken,
- prayerful,
- precative,
- prior,
- puritan,
- puritanical,
- religieux,
- religious,
- rentiers,
- rigoristic,
- sannyasi,
- schnorrer,
- scrounger,
- scrounging,
- self-denying,
- spiv,
- sponger,
- starveling,
- stripped,
- stylite,
- suppliant,
- supplicant,
- supplicating,
- supplicatory,
- the unemployable,
- the unemployed,
- tramp,
- underprivileged,
- wedded to poverty,
- yogi,
- yogin
- intact
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- undamaged in any way; whole; "the vase remained intact despite rough handling"
- not impaired or diminished in any way; "emerged from the trial with his prestige intact"; "the blast left his hearing intact"
- (of a woman) having the hymen unbroken; "she was intact, virginal" related words >
- Platonic,
- abiding,
- abstinent,
- budding,
- callow,
- celibate,
- changeless,
- complete,
- conserved,
- constant,
- continent,
- continuing,
- developed,
- dewy,
- durable,
- enduring,
- entire,
- ever-new,
- evergreen,
- firm,
- firsthand,
- fixed,
- flawless,
- fledgling,
- fresh,
- frozen,
- full,
- full-fledged,
- full-grown,
- full-scale,
- global,
- green,
- growing,
- immature,
- immobile,
- immune,
- immunized,
- immutable,
- imperforate,
- impubic,
- inexperienced,
- ingenuous,
- innocent,
- insured,
- integral,
- inviolate,
- juicy,
- kept,
- lasting,
- maiden,
- maidenly,
- mature,
- matured,
- minor,
- naive,
- neoteric,
- nestling,
- new,
- new-fledged,
- original,
- pathless,
- perfect,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- persistent,
- pierceless,
- preserved,
- pristine,
- protected,
- quiescent,
- raw,
- remaining,
- rigid,
- ripe,
- ripening,
- safe,
- safe and sound,
- sappy,
- saved,
- secure,
- sempervirent,
- solid,
- sound,
- spared,
- stable,
- static,
- stationary,
- staying,
- steadfast,
- sustained,
- tender,
- together,
- torpid,
- total,
- trackless,
- unabbreviated,
- unadult,
- unaltered,
- unbeaten,
- unblemished,
- unbroken,
- unchangeable,
- unchanged,
- unchanging,
- unchecked,
- uncut,
- undamaged,
- undefiled,
- underage,
- undestroyed,
- undeveloped,
- undiminished,
- undivided,
- unexpurgated,
- unfading,
- unfailing,
- unfledged,
- unformed,
- unhandled,
- unharmed,
- unhurt,
- unimpaired,
- uninjured,
- unlicked,
- unmarred,
- unmellowed,
- unperforated,
- unpierced,
- unqualified,
- unreduced,
- unripe,
- unscathed,
- unseasoned,
- unshifting,
- unspoiled,
- unsullied,
- untainted,
- unthreatened,
- untouched,
- untried,
- untrodden,
- unused,
- unvaried,
- unvarying,
- utter,
- vernal,
- vestal,
- virgin,
- virginal,
- wayless,
- well-conserved,
- whole,
- young
- austere
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- of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"
- severely simple; "a stark interior" related words >
- Albigensian,
- Catharist,
- Franciscan,
- Lenten,
- Sabbatarian,
- Spartan,
- Spartanic,
- Trappist,
- Waldensian,
- abstemious,
- abstinent,
- amaroidal,
- anchoritic,
- ascetic,
- astringent,
- authoritarian,
- bald,
- bare,
- basic,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- candid,
- chaste,
- common,
- commonplace,
- demanding,
- direct,
- dour,
- dry,
- dull,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- earnest,
- elementary,
- eremitic,
- essential,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- exiguous,
- flagellant,
- frank,
- frugal,
- fundamental,
- grave,
- grim,
- hard,
- harsh,
- homely,
- homespun,
- homogeneous,
- impoverished,
- inclement,
- indivisible,
- inornate,
- irreducible,
- jejune,
- keen,
- lean,
- limited,
- matter-of-fact,
- meager,
- mean,
- mendicant,
- mere,
- meticulous,
- miserly,
- monolithic,
- mortified,
- narrow,
- natural,
- neat,
- niggardly,
- of a piece,
- open,
- paltry,
- parsimonious,
- plain,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- poor,
- primal,
- primary,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- puny,
- pure,
- pure and simple,
- puritanical,
- rigoristic,
- rough,
- rugged,
- rustic,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimpy,
- self-denying,
- serious,
- severe,
- sharp,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- simple-speaking,
- single,
- skimp,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- sober,
- somber,
- spare,
- sparing,
- stark,
- starvation,
- stern,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- straightforward,
- straitened,
- strict,
- stringent,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- thin,
- tough,
- unadorned,
- unaffected,
- uncluttered,
- undecorated,
- undifferenced,
- undifferentiated,
- unelaborate,
- unembellished,
- unfancy,
- unfussy,
- ungentle,
- uniform,
- unimaginative,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- unornamented,
- unornate,
- unpoetical,
- unsparing,
- unvarnished,
- watered,
- watery,
- wedded to poverty
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