Abstemious - English meaning

adjective

Refraining from an activity or from the consumption of something, especially alcohol.

Usage examples:

The patients are best advised to be totally abstinent from alcohol

adjective

Completely avoiding something such as alcohol or sex

Usage examples:

Sexually abstinent, he has now been abstinent from alcohol for four years.

adjective

Characterized by severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.

Usage examples:

An ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and manual labour

noun

A person who follows an ascetic life.

Usage examples:

The composition of hymns of the rig-veda was done by hindu recluses, ascetics, rishis and sages roo…

adjective

Avoiding physical pleasures and living a simple life, often for religious reasons

Usage examples:

They live a very ascetic life.

adjective

Severe or strict in manner or attitude.

Usage examples:

He was an austere man, with a rigidly puritanical outlook

adjective

Very simple, with only the things that are absolutely necessary, especially because of severe limits on money or goods

Usage examples:

An austere childhood during the war

adjective

Plain and without decoration or unnecessary details

Usage examples:

The courtroom was a large, dark chamber, an austere place.

noun

A shirt made of cloth containing hair that feels unpleasant on the skin and was worn in the past by people who wanted to punish themselves for religious reasons

adjective

Average in amount, intensity, quality, or degree.

Usage examples:

We walked at a moderate pace

noun

A person who holds moderate views, especially in politics.

Usage examples:

An unlikely alliance of radicals and moderates

verb

Make or become less extreme, intense, rigorous, or violent.

Usage examples:

I shall not moderate my criticism

adjective

Having or displaying a very strict or censorious moral attitude towards self-indulgence or sex.

Usage examples:

His puritanical parents saw any kind of pleasure as the road to damnation

adjective

Characterized by reserve or moderation; unemotional or dispassionate.

Usage examples:

His restrained, gentlemanly voice

verb

Prevent (someone or something) from doing something; keep under control or within limits.

Usage examples:

The need to restrain public expenditure

adjective

Not allowing yourself to have what you like or want, often so that other people can have it

Usage examples:

She seems to be trying so hard not to impose her problems on others that she can seem self-abnegati…

adjective

A self-denying person gives up what they want so that other people can have it, or because they feel it is morally right for them to give it up

Usage examples:

Far from being a self-denying hermit, reece enjoyed the finest clothes he could afford., she was br…

adjective

Able to make yourself do things you know you should do even when you do not want to

Usage examples:

I faced up to the fact that i was not self-disciplined enough to lose weight by myself so i got a p…

adjective

(of something bad or undesirable) very great; intense.

Usage examples:

A severe shortage of technicians

adjective

Causing great pain, difficulty, damage, etc.; very serious

Usage examples:

A severe earthquake, the family faced severe challenges when he lost his job., severe criticism

adjective

Not affected by alcohol; not drunk.

Usage examples:

Drunk or sober, he was driven by a manic energy and impatience that made him a difficult friend and…

verb

Make or become sober after drinking alcohol.

Usage examples:

That coffee sobered him up

adjective

Having had no alcohol; not drunk

Usage examples:

The sober expression had not left martin’s face.

adjective

Showing or characterized by austerity or a lack of comfort or luxury.

Usage examples:

The accommodation was fairly spartan

noun

A citizen of sparta.

Usage examples:

The spartans were the dorian inhabitants of a greek city-state in the peloponnese that for many cen…

noun

A canadian dessert apple of a variety with crisp white flesh and maroon-flushed yellow skin.

adjective

Demanding that rules concerning behaviour are obeyed and observed.

Usage examples:

My father was very strict

adjective

Limiting people’s freedom to behave as they wish beyond what is usual

Usage examples:

The school is an old-fashioned institution with strict discipline., do you think stricter laws woul…

adjective

Relating to or denoting a region or climate characterized by mild temperatures.

Usage examples:

Sage can be grown outdoors in cool, temperate climates

adjective

Not extreme; within a middle range

Usage examples:

The climate here is pretty temperate.