ascetic

  • (a) pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline
    • ascetic practices
    ascetical,
  • (s) 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
    ascetical, austere, spartan,

Nouns

  • (n) someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline abstainer,

Synonyms

ascetical abstainer austere spartan

Words of close approximity

ascetical ascetically asceticism