Ascetic
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English
Adjective
Ascetic (comparative more Ascetic, superlative most Ascetic)
- Of or relating to ascetics; characterized by rigorous self-denial or self-discipline; austere; abstinent; involving a withholding of physical pleasure.
Noun
Ascetic (plural Ascetics)- One who is devoted to the practice of self-denial, either through seclusion or stringent abstinence.
Adverbs for Ascetic
austerely; exceptionally; completely; incomprehensibly; obviously; excessively; terribly; remarkably; innately; naturally; puritanically; rigidly; rigorously; strictly; severely; harshly; arbitrarily; despotically;tyrannically; prudishly; haughtily.
Synonyms for Ascetic
austere, abstemious, rigid, stern, self-denying.
Antonyms for Ascetic
luxurious, sensuous, voluptuous, dissolute.
Thesaurus
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
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀσκητικός (askētikos), from ἀσκητής (askētēs, “monk, hermit”), from ἀσκέω (askeō, “I exercise”).
Pronunciation
- IPA: /əˈsɛtɪk/
- Rhymes: -ɛtɪk
