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Ascetic
| Ascetic Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Ascetic?
[n] practices self denial as spiritual discipline
[adj] 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"
[adj] pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic; "ascetic practices"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Ascetic: abstainer |
abstemious |
ascetical |
ascetical |
austere |
spartan
Related Terms | Find terms related to Ascetic: abbacomes |
abbot |
abstainer |
abstemious |
abstinent |
Albigensian |
anchoress |
anchorite |
anchoritic |
apologetic |
Apostolic |
Apostolici |
astringent |
atoning |
austere |
bald |
banian |
bare |
beadsman |
bedridden invalid |
bhikshu |
brother |
caloyer |
candid |
Catharist |
celibate |
cenobite |
chaste |
cleansing |
cloistered monk |
closet cynic |
common |
commonplace |
compensational |
compensatory |
continent |
conventual |
conventual prior |
dervish |
desert fathers |
desert saints |
Diogenes |
direct |
disciplined |
dry |
dull |
dwarfed |
dwarfish |
Encratic |
Encratite |
eremite |
eremitic |
exiguous |
expiatory |
fakir |
flagellant |
forbearing |
Franciscan |
frank |
friar |
frugal |
fruitarian |
grand prior |
gymnosophist |
hermit |
hermitess |
hieromonach |
Hieronymian |
Hieronymite |
homebody |
homely |
homespun |
hydropot |
impoverished |
invalid |
isolationist |
jejune |
lay abbot |
lay brother |
lean |
Lenten |
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 |
Pythagorean |
Pythagorist |
Rechabite |
reclamatory |
recluse |
recompensing |
redeeming |
redemptive |
redressing |
religieux |
religious |
reparative |
reparatory |
repentant |
repenting |
restitutional |
restitutive |
restitutory |
restrained |
righting |
rigoristic |
rustic |
Sabbatarian |
sannyasi |
satisfactional |
scant |
scanty |
schooled |
scrawny |
scrimp |
scrimpy |
seclusionist |
self-abasing |
self-abnegating |
self-denying |
self-forgetful |
selfless |
severe |
sexually abstinent |
Shaker |
shut-in |
simple |
simple-speaking |
skimp |
skimpy |
slender |
slight |
slim |
small |
sober |
solitaire |
solitary |
solitudinarian |
spare |
sparing |
Spartan |
squaring |
stark |
starvation |
stay-at-home |
stern |
stingy |
stinted |
Stoic |
straightforward |
straitened |
stunted |
stylite |
subsistence |
sworn off |
teetotal |
teetotaler |
teetotalist |
thin |
Timon of Athens |
trained |
Trappist |
unadorned |
unaffected |
unimaginative |
unnourishing |
unnutritious |
unpoetical |
unvarnished |
vegetarian |
Waldensian |
water-drinker |
watered |
watery |
wedded to poverty |
yogi |
yogin
See Also | puritan |
religionist |
religious person |
stylite
Ascetic In Webster's Dictionary
\As*cet"ic\a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to exercise, to practice
gymnastics.]
Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere;
severe.
The stern ascetic rigor of the Temple discipline. --Sir
W. Scott.
\As*cet"ic\, n.
In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary
and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme
self-denial, and self-mortification; a hermit; a recluse;
hence, one who practices extreme rigor and self-denial in
religious things.
I am far from commending those ascetics that take up
their quarters in deserts. --Norris.
{Ascetic theology}, the science which treats of the practice
of the theological and moral virtues, and the counsels of
perfection. --Am. Cyc.
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