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- fakir
collapse - a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man related words >
- sannyasi
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- a Hindu religious mendicant related words >
- 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
- yogi
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- one who practices yoga and has achieved a high level of spiritual insight related words >
- Albigensian,
- Brahman,
- Catharist,
- Franciscan,
- Ramwat,
- Sabbatarian,
- Trappist,
- Waldensian,
- abstainer,
- adept,
- anchorite,
- anthroposophist,
- ascetic,
- bairagi,
- bashara,
- bhikhari,
- bhikshu,
- cabalist,
- dervish,
- esoteric,
- fakir,
- flagellant,
- guru,
- hermit,
- mahatma,
- mendicant,
- mystagogue,
- mystic,
- pujari,
- pundit,
- puritan,
- purohit,
- sannyasi,
- supernaturalist,
- theosophist,
- transcendentalist,
- vairagi,
- yogin,
- yogist
- dervish
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- an ascetic Muslim monk; a member of an order noted for devotional exercises involving bodily movements related words >
- Albigensian,
- Black Muslim,
- Catharist,
- Franciscan,
- Mohammedan,
- Moslem,
- Motazilite,
- Muhammadan,
- Muslim,
- Mussulman,
- Sabbatarian,
- Sectary,
- Shia,
- Shiite,
- Sufi,
- Sunnite,
- Trappist,
- Wahabi,
- Waldensian,
- abdal,
- abstainer,
- anchorite,
- ascetic,
- bhikshu,
- fakir,
- flagellant,
- hajji,
- hermit,
- imam,
- mendicant,
- muezzin,
- mufti,
- mullah,
- murshid,
- puritan,
- qadi,
- sannyasi,
- santon,
- sheikh,
- yogi,
- yogin
- 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
- anchorite
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- one retired from society for religious reasons related words >
- Albigensian,
- Catharist,
- Diogenes,
- Franciscan,
- Hieronymian,
- Hieronymite,
- Sabbatarian,
- Timon of Athens,
- Trappist,
- Waldensian,
- abstainer,
- anchoress,
- ascetic,
- bedridden invalid,
- bhikshu,
- cloistered monk,
- closet cynic,
- dervish,
- desert fathers,
- desert saints,
- eremite,
- fakir,
- flagellant,
- hermit,
- hermitess,
- homebody,
- invalid,
- isolationist,
- loner,
- marabout,
- mendicant,
- outcast,
- pariah,
- pillar saint,
- pillarist,
- puritan,
- recluse,
- sannyasi,
- seclusionist,
- shut-in,
- solitaire,
- solitary,
- solitudinarian,
- stay-at-home,
- stylite,
- yogi,
- yogin
- Brahman
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- any of several breeds of Indian cattle; especially a large American heat and tick resistant greyish humped breed evolved in the Gulf States by interbreeding Indian cattle and now used chiefly for crossbreeding
- the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category
- a member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas; "originally all brahmans were priests"
- a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family); "a Boston Brahman" related words >
- Buddhist,
- Christian,
- Ramwat,
- anthroposophist,
- archduke,
- aristocrat,
- armiger,
- bairagi,
- baron,
- baronet,
- bashara,
- bhikhari,
- bhikshu,
- blue blood,
- count,
- daimio,
- duke,
- earl,
- esquire,
- gentleman,
- grand duke,
- grandee,
- guru,
- hidalgo,
- lace-curtain,
- laird,
- landgrave,
- lord,
- lordling,
- magnate,
- magnifico,
- margrave,
- marquis,
- noble,
- nobleman,
- optimate,
- palsgrave,
- patrician,
- peer,
- pujari,
- pundit,
- purohit,
- sannyasi,
- seigneur,
- seignior,
- silk-stocking,
- squire,
- swell,
- thoroughbred,
- upper-cruster,
- vairagi,
- viscount,
- waldgrave,
- yogi,
- yogin
- Franciscan
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- a Roman Catholic friar wearing the grey habit of the Franciscan order
- of or relating to Saint Francis of Assisi or to the order founded by him; "Franciscan monks" related words >
- Albigensian,
- Augustinian,
- Augustinian Hermit,
- Austin Friar,
- Benedictine,
- Bernardine,
- Black Friar,
- Black Monk,
- Bonhomme,
- Brigittine,
- Capuchin,
- Carmelite,
- Carthusian,
- Catharist,
- Cistercian,
- Cluniac,
- Conventual,
- Crossed Friar,
- Crutched Friar,
- Dominican,
- Friar Minor,
- Gilbertine,
- Gray Friar,
- Hospitaler,
- Jesuit,
- Loyolite,
- Marist,
- Maryknoll,
- Minorite,
- Observant,
- Oratorian,
- Premonstratensian,
- Recollect,
- Recollet,
- Redemptorist,
- Sabbatarian,
- Templar,
- Trappist,
- Waldensian,
- White Friar,
- abstainer,
- anchorite,
- ascetic,
- begging hermit,
- bhikshu,
- dervish,
- fakir,
- flagellant,
- hermit,
- mendicant,
- preaching friar,
- puritan,
- sannyasi,
- yogi,
- yogin
- puritan
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- someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures
- a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship related words >
- Albigensian,
- Catharist,
- Franciscan,
- Grundy,
- Sabbatarian,
- Trappist,
- Victorian,
- Waldensian,
- abstainer,
- anchorite,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- bhikshu,
- bigoted,
- bluenose,
- dervish,
- disapproving,
- dour,
- fakir,
- fanatic,
- firm,
- flagellant,
- fundamentalist,
- goody-goody,
- hard,
- hard-line,
- hard-nosed,
- hermit,
- hidebound,
- impliable,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- intolerant,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- mendicant,
- mid-Victorian,
- moralistic,
- muscle-bound,
- narrow-minded,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- old maid,
- orthodox,
- pietist,
- pietistic,
- prig,
- prim,
- procrustean,
- proper,
- prude,
- prudish,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- puritanical,
- relentless,
- religionist,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rockbound,
- sannyasi,
- severe,
- stern,
- stiff,
- stiff-necked,
- straightlaced,
- strait-laced,
- straitlaced,
- strict,
- stubborn,
- stuffy,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding,
- uptight,
- yogi,
- yogin,
- zealot
- Brahman,
- Ramwat,
- abecedarian,
- academician,
- aficionado,
- amateur,
- authority,
- bairagi,
- bashara,
- bhikhari,
- bhikshu,
- bookman,
- buff,
- certified teacher,
- classicist,
- clerk,
- colossus of knowledge,
- connoisseur,
- critic,
- dilettante,
- docent,
- doctor,
- dominie,
- don,
- educationist,
- educator,
- expert,
- fan,
- fellow,
- freak,
- genius,
- giant of learning,
- guide,
- guru,
- humanist,
- instructor,
- learned clerk,
- learned man,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- lover of learning,
- maestro,
- man of learning,
- man of letters,
- master,
- mastermind,
- melamed,
- mentor,
- mine of information,
- mullah,
- nut,
- pandit,
- pedagogist,
- pedagogue,
- philologist,
- philologue,
- philomath,
- philosophe,
- philosopher,
- polyhistor,
- polymath,
- preceptor,
- professor,
- pujari,
- purohit,
- rabbi,
- sannyasi,
- savant,
- scholar,
- scholastic,
- schoolkeeper,
- schoolman,
- schoolmaster,
- schoolteacher,
- specialist,
- starets,
- student,
- teacher,
- technical expert,
- technician,
- vairagi,
- walking encyclopedia,
- yogi,
- yogin
- guru
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- a Hindu or Buddhist religious leader and spiritual teacher
- a recognized leader in some field or of some movement; "a guru of genomics"
- each of the first ten leaders of the Sikh religion related words >
- Brahman,
- Ramwat,
- abecedarian,
- angel,
- authority,
- bairagi,
- bashara,
- bhikhari,
- bhikshu,
- boss,
- bwana,
- certified teacher,
- chef,
- chief,
- church dignitary,
- docent,
- doctor,
- dominie,
- don,
- ecclesiarch,
- educationist,
- educator,
- elder,
- elder statesman,
- employer,
- fellow,
- goodman,
- great soul,
- guide,
- holy man,
- husband,
- illuminate,
- instructor,
- intellect,
- intellectual,
- liege,
- liege lord,
- lord,
- lord paramount,
- lover of wisdom,
- maestro,
- mahatma,
- man of intellect,
- man of wisdom,
- mandarin,
- master,
- mastermind,
- melamed,
- mentor,
- mullah,
- oracle,
- overlord,
- padrone,
- pandit,
- paramount,
- paterfamilias,
- patriarch,
- patron,
- pedagogist,
- pedagogue,
- philosopher,
- preceptor,
- professor,
- pujari,
- pundit,
- purohit,
- rabbi,
- rishi,
- sage,
- sahib,
- saint,
- sannyasi,
- sapient,
- savant,
- scholar,
- schoolkeeper,
- schoolmaster,
- schoolteacher,
- seer,
- seigneur,
- seignior,
- starets,
- teacher,
- thinker,
- vairagi,
- wise man,
- wise old man,
- yogi,
- yogin
- hermit
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- one who lives in solitude related words >
- Albigensian,
- Catharist,
- Diogenes,
- Franciscan,
- Hieronymian,
- Hieronymite,
- Sabbatarian,
- Timon of Athens,
- Trappist,
- Waldensian,
- abbacomes,
- abbot,
- abstainer,
- alien,
- anchoress,
- anchoret,
- anchorite,
- ascetic,
- beadsman,
- bedridden invalid,
- bhikshu,
- brother,
- caloyer,
- case,
- celibate,
- cenobite,
- character,
- cloistered monk,
- closet cynic,
- conventual,
- conventual prior,
- crackpot,
- crank,
- dervish,
- desert fathers,
- desert saints,
- eccentric,
- eremite,
- fakir,
- fanatic,
- flagellant,
- friar,
- grand prior,
- hermitess,
- hieromonach,
- hobo,
- homebody,
- invalid,
- isolationist,
- kook,
- lay abbot,
- lay brother,
- lone wolf,
- loner,
- marabout,
- maverick,
- mendicant,
- meshuggenah,
- monastic,
- monk,
- natural,
- nonconformist,
- nut,
- odd fellow,
- oddball,
- oddity,
- original,
- outcast,
- outsider,
- palmer,
- pariah,
- pilgrim,
- pillar saint,
- pillarist,
- prior,
- puritan,
- queer duck,
- queer fish,
- queer specimen,
- rara avis,
- recluse,
- religieux,
- religious,
- sannyasi,
- screwball,
- seclusionist,
- shut-in,
- solitaire,
- solitary,
- solitudinarian,
- stay-at-home,
- stylite,
- tramp,
- type,
- yogi,
- yogin,
- zealot
- 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
- 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
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