ascetic :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

n. someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline

adj. pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline; "ascetic practices"

adj. 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"

eremite

n. a Christian recluse

hermit, anchorite

n. one retired from society for religious reasons

monk, monastic

n. a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work

troglodyte, hermit, recluse

n. one who lives in solitude

primitive, primitive person

n. a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization

Spartan

adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people

Spartan, strict

adj. unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment; "a parent severe to the pitch of hostility"- H.G.Wells; "a hefty six-footer with a rather severe mien"; "a strict disciplinarian"; "a Spartan upbringing"

blue, puritan, puritanical

adj. morally rigorous and strict; "blue laws"; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"

fanatic, fanatical, overzealous, rabid

adj. marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea; "rabid isolationist"

abstinent, abstentious

adj. self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink; "not totally abstinent but abstemious"

temperate, sparing

adj. not extreme in behavior; "temperate in his habits"; "a temperate response to an insult"; "temperate in his eating and drinking"

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