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Abstemious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Eating and drinking in moderation.

adj. Characterized by abstinence or moderation: The hermit led an abstemious way of life.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life.

adj. Promotive of abstemiousness.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Abstaining from wine.

adj. Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.

adj. Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation.

adj. Marked by, or spent in, abstinence.

adj. Promotive of abstemiousness.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Sparing in diet; moderate in the use of food and drink; temperate; abstinent.

Restricted; very moderate and plain; very sparing; spare: opposed to luxurious or rich: as, an abstemious diet.

Devoted to or spent in abstemiousness or abstinence: as, an abstemious life.

Promoting or favoring abstemiousness; associated with temperance.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. sparing in consumption of especially food and drink

adj. marked by temperance in indulgence

Word Usage

"Dowd has repeatedly mocked Obama's "abstemious" tastes and how these set him apart from the great, fat, American mains ..."

Equivalent

Spartan ascetical austere ascetic abstentious

Antonym

self-gratifying drinking gluttonous

Form

abstemiousness unabstemious

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

temperate abstinent ascetic austere sober

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

frugal self-denying temperate well-behaved punctual