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ascetic

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"

Synonyms:

• 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