Adjective ascetic has 2 senses
- ascetic, ascetical - pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline; "ascetic practices"
- ascetic, ascetical, austere, spartan - 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"
Antonym: gluttonous (indirect, via abstemious)
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Noun ascetic has 1 sense
- abstainer, ascetic - practices self denial as spiritual discipline
--1 is a kind of religionist, religious person
--1 has particulars: puritan; stylite
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