| 单词 | ascetic |
| 释义 | ascetic (once / 1113 pages) nadj Want to live an ascetic lifestyle? Then you better ditch the flat panel TV and fuzzy slippers. To be ascetic, you learn to live without; it's all about self-denial. Ascetic is derived from the Greek asketes, meaning “monk,” or “hermit.” Later that became asketikos, meaning “rigorously self-disciplined,” which gives us the Modern English ascetic. Ascetic can be a noun: a person with incredible self-discipline and the ability to deprive herself, or an adjective that describes such a people or their lifestyle. WORD FAMILYascetic: ascetical, ascetically, asceticism, ascetics+/asceticism: asceticisms USAGE EXAMPLESThis is not to suggest she lived the life of a do-gooding ascetic. Time(Dec 22, 2016) His house has no modern conveniences, and the clinic he soon goes to, staffed by slim women with light-colored eyebrows, is similarly ascetic. New York Times(Nov 24, 2016) Although the king’s personal habits, often bordering on the ascetic, were viewed by many Thais as beyond reproach, his family life was at times rocky. Washington Post(Oct 13, 2016) 1n someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline Syn|Hypo|Hyper abstainer puritan someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures stylitean early Christian ascetic who lived on top of high pillars religious person a person who manifests devotion to a deity 2adj practicing great self-denial "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James Syn ascetical, austere, spartan abstemious sparing in consumption of especially food and drink 3adj pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline ascetic practices Syn ascetical |
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