Abstainer

//æbˈsteɪ.nɚ//

Synonyms for "abstainer" (41 found)

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Translations

14 translations across 10 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • въздържател noun (one who abstains)

Dutch

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  • onthouder noun (one who abstains)

Indonesian

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  • golongan putih noun (one who abstains)

Macedonian

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  • апстине́нт noun (one who abstains)
  • тре́звеник noun (one who abstains)

Māori

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  • wainamu noun (one who abstains)

Norwegian

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  • avholdsmann noun (one who abstains)

Polish

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  • abstynent noun (one who abstains)
  • abstynentka noun (one who abstains)

Serbo-Croatian

3 entries
  • apstinent noun (one who abstains)
  • trezvènjāk noun (one who abstains)
  • апстинент noun (one who abstains)

Spanish

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  • abstemio noun (one who abstains)

Swedish

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  • asket noun (one who abstains)

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

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To one of my very nervous patients, who was an abstainer, whose fancy was fixed on his mother, and who repeatedly dreamed of climbing stairs accompanied by his mother, I once remarked that moderate masturbation would be less harmful to him than enforced abstinence.

Source: wiktionary

He was a total abstainer and a nonsmoker, had no recreations except a daily hour in the gymnasium, and had taken a vow of celibacy, believing marriage and the care of a family to be incompatible with a twenty-four-hour-a-day devotion to duty.

Source: wiktionary

'Never himself touches a drop of the stuff, you understand. Having been an abstainer since the age of seven or something. A clerky figure even as a child.'

Source: wiktionary

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