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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun ascetic has 1 sense
- ascetic(n = noun.person) abstainer - someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline; Array is a kind of religious person
has particulars: puritan, stylite
Derived forms adjective ascetic2, adjective ascetic1, adjective ascetical2, adjective ascetical1
Adjective ascetic has 2 senses
- ascetic(a = adj.pert) ascetical - pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline; "ascetic practices" Derived form noun ascetic1
- ascetic(s = adj.all) ascetical, austere, spartan - practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence" Derived form noun ascetic1
CIDE DICTIONARY
ascetic, a. [Gr. , fr. to exercise, to practice gymnastics.].
Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe. [1913 Webster]
"The stern ascetic rigor of the Temple discipline."
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ascetic, 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. [1913 Webster]
"I am far from commending those ascetics that take up their quarters in deserts."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
ascetic, n. & adj.
--n. a person who practises severe self-discipline and abstains from all forms of pleasure, esp. for religious or spiritual reasons.
--adj. relating to or characteristic of ascetics or asceticism; abstaining from pleasure.
--n. a person who practises severe self-discipline and abstains from all forms of pleasure, esp. for religious or spiritual reasons.
--adj. relating to or characteristic of ascetics or asceticism; abstaining from pleasure.
Derivative
ascetically adv. asceticism n.
Etymology
med.L asceticus or Gk asketikos f. asketes monk f. askeo exercise
THESAURUS
ascetic
Albigensian, Apostolic, Apostolici, Catharist, Diogenes, Encratic, Encratite, Franciscan, Hieronymian, Hieronymite, Lenten, Pythagorean, Pythagorist, Rechabite, Sabbatarian, Shaker, Spartan, Stoic, Timon of Athens, Trappist, Waldensian, abbacomes, abbot, abstainer, abstemious, abstinent, anchoress, anchorite, anchoritic, apologetic, astringent, atoning, austere, bald, banian, bare, beadsman, bedridden invalid, bhikshu, brother, caloyer, candid, celibate, cenobite, chaste, cleansing, cloistered monk, closet cynic, common, commonplace, compensational, compensatory, continent, conventual, conventual prior, dervish, desert fathers, desert saints, direct, disciplined, dry, dull, dwarfed, dwarfish, eremite, eremitic, exiguous, expiatory, fakir, flagellant, forbearing, frank, friar, frugal, fruitarian, grand prior, gymnosophist, hermit, hermitess, hieromonach, homebody, homely, homespun, hydropot, impoverished, invalid, isolationist, jejune, lay abbot, lay brother, lean, 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, reclamatory, recluse, recompensing, redeeming, redemptive, redressing, religieux, religious, reparative, reparatory, repentant, repenting, restitutional, restitutive, restitutory, restrained, righting, rigoristic, rustic, sannyasi, satisfactional, scant, scanty, schooled, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, seclusionist, self-abasing, self-abnegating, self-denying, self-forgetful, selfless, severe, sexually abstinent, shut-in, simple, simple-speaking, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, sober, solitaire, solitary, solitudinarian, spare, sparing, squaring, stark, starvation, stay-at-home, stern, stingy, stinted, straightforward, straitened, stunted, stylite, subsistence, sworn off, teetotal, teetotaler, teetotalist, thin, trained, unadorned, unaffected, unimaginative, unnourishing, unnutritious, unpoetical, unvarnished, vegetarian, water-drinker, watered, watery, wedded to poverty, yogi, yoginROGET THESAURUS
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Asceticism
N asceticism, puritanism, sabbatarianism, cynicism, austerity, total abstinence, nephalism, mortification, maceration, sackcloth and ashes, flagellation, penance, fasting, martyrdom, ascetic, anchoret, anchorite, martyr, Heautontimorumenos, hermit, puritan, sabbatarian, cynic, sanyasi, yogi, ascetic, austere, puritanical, cynical, over-religious, acerbic, asceticism, puritanism, sabbatarianism, cynicism, austerity, total abstinence, nephalism, mortification, maceration, sackcloth and ashes, flagellation, penance, fasting, martyrdom, ascetic, anchoret, anchorite, martyr, Heautontimorumenos, hermit, puritan, sabbatarian, cynic, sanyasi, yogi, ascetic, austere, puritanical, cynical, over-religious, acerbic.
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