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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective abstemious has 2 senses
- abstemious(a = adj.all) Array - sparing in consumption of especially food and drink; "the pleasures of the table, never of much consequence to one naturally abstemious" Derived form noun abstemiousness2
- abstemious(s = adj.all) light - marked by temperance in indulgence; "abstemious with the use of adverbs"; "a light eater"; "a light smoker"; "ate a light supper" Derived form noun abstemiousness1
Antonym: gluttonous
CIDE DICTIONARY
abstemious, a. [L. abstemius; ab, abs + root of temetum intoxicating drink.].
- Abstaining from wine. [1913 Webster]"Under his special eye
Abstemious I grew up and thrived amain." [1913 Webster] - Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions. [1913 Webster]"Instances of longevity are chiefly among the abstemious." [1913 Webster]
- Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an abstemious diet. Gibbon. [1913 Webster]
- Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life. Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Promotive of abstemiousness. [1913 Webster]"Such is the virtue of the abstemious well." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
abstemious, adj. (of a person, habit, etc.) moderate, not self-indulgent, esp. in eating and drinking.
Derivative
abstemiously adv. abstemiousness n.
Etymology
L abstemius (as AB-, temetum strong drink)
THESAURUS
abstemious
Apostolic, Encratic, Lenten, Pythagorean, Rechabite, Shaker, Spartan, Stoic, abstentious, abstinent, ascetic, austere, celibate, chaste, continent, dwarfed, dwarfish, exiguous, frugal, fruitarian, impoverished, jejune, lean, limited, meager, mean, miserly, narrow, nephalistic, niggardly, on the wagon, paltry, parsimonious, poor, puny, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, self-abnegating, self-denying, sexually abstinent, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, sober, spar, spare, sparing, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, sworn off, teetotal, temperate, thin, unnourishing, unnutritious, vegetarian, watered, wateryROGET THESAURUS
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Temperance
N temperance, moderation, sobriety, soberness, forbearance, abnegation, self-denial, self-restraint, self-control, frugality, vegetarianism, teetotalism, total abstinence, abstinence, abstemiousness, Encratism, prohibition, system of Pythagoras, system of Cornaro, Pythagorism, Stoicism, vegetarian, Pythagorean, gymnosophist, teetotaler, abstainer, designated driver, Encratite, fruitarian, hydropot, temperate, moderate, sober, frugal, sparing, abstemious, abstinent, within compass, measured, on the wagon, on the water wagon, dry, Pythagorean, vegetarian, teetotal, appetitus rationi obediant, l'abstenir pour jouir c'est l'epicurisme de la rai, trahit sua quemque voluptas.
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