nnoun.personsomeone who practices self denial as a spiritual disciplineSynset:abstainer
Derivationally Related Form:abstainasceticascetical
Hypernyms:religious person
Inherited Hypernyms:abstainerreligious personpersoncausal agentphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:abstainerreligious personpersonorganismliving thingwholeobjectphysical entityentity
Direct Hyponyms:puritanstylite
Full Hyponyms:puritanstylite
adjadj.pertpertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-disciplineSynset:ascetical
Derivationally Related Form:ascetic
Pertainyms:ascetic
Inherited Hypernyms:ascetic
adj satadj.allpracticing great self-denialSynset:ascetical austere spartan
Examples:- 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
Antonyms:gluttonous
Derivationally Related Form:asceticausterity
Inherited Hypernyms:ascetic
Similar to:abstemious