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- dervish
- an ascetic Muslim monk; a member of an order noted for devotional exercises involving bodily movements
Synonyms:
- 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
Related Words:
- 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
- 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
- Dalai Lama,
- Holy Roman Emperor,
- Inca,
- Kaiser,
- Muslim rulers,
- Prinz,
- abdal,
- ardri,
- atheling,
- bey,
- cacique,
- caesar,
- cham,
- crown prince,
- czar,
- dervish,
- emir,
- fakir,
- hajji,
- heir apparent,
- heir presumptive,
- imam,
- kaid,
- khan,
- king,
- knez,
- mikado,
- mirza,
- muezzin,
- mufti,
- mullah,
- murshid,
- negus,
- padishah,
- pendragon,
- pharaoh,
- prince,
- prince consort,
- prince regent,
- princeling,
- princes of India,
- qadi,
- rig,
- sachem,
- sagamore,
- santon,
- shah,
- shahzada,
- sherif,
- shogun,
- tenno,
- tycoon
- 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
- 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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