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ascetic
 
Adjective ascetic has 2 senses
  1. ascetic, ascetical - pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline; "ascetic practices"
  2. ascetic, ascetical, austere, spartan - 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"
    Antonym: gluttonous (indirect, via abstemious)
Noun ascetic has 1 sense
  1. abstainer, ascetic - practices self denial as spiritual discipline
    --1 is a kind of religionist, religious person
    --1 has particulars: puritan; stylite
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