ascetical

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

Synonyms

ascetic austere spartan

Words of close approximity

ascetically