ascetic
Other forms: ascetics
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.
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someone who practices self denial as a spiritual disciplinesynonyms: abstainertypes:puritansomeone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasuresstylitean early Christian ascetic who lived on top of high pillarstype of:religious persona person who manifests devotion to a deity
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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”abstemioussparing in consumption of especially food and drink
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pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline“ascetic practices”synonyms: ascetical
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