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Ascetic

//əˈsɛ.tɪk//

Synonyms for "ascetic" (231 found)

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General use (208)

Adj, noun, verb(17 words)

open narrow commonplace unaffected invalid limited outcast celibate sparing recluse cleansing scrimp forbearing prosing redeeming teetotal recompensing

Adj, name, verb(2 words)

Adj, adv, verb(1 words)

Adj, name, noun, verb(6 words)

common poor slight frank stern bald

Adj, adv, noun, verb(1 words)

Adj, adv, name, noun, verb(2 words)

Adj, name(2 words)

Adjective(51 words)

rigorous homely jejune watery chaste paltry austere prosaic unvarnished scanty frugal miserly unimaginative parsimonious scrawny abstemious matter-of-fact prosy propitiatory exiguous

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Adj, noun(36 words)

candid homespun solitary spartan puny religious rustic stoic vegetarian puritan puritanical mendicant astringent skimpy purgative apologetic fruitarian franciscan reparative apostolic

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solitaire sabbatarian antisocial monastic penitential shut-in stay-at-home repentant isolationist abstinent Albigensian conventual pythagorean Waldensian trappist flagellant

Adj, adv, det, noun, verb(1 words)

Adj, adv(2 words)

straightforward niggardly

Adjective(3 words)

spartan austere ascetical

Adj, verb(11 words)

impoverished restrained meager temperate watered stunted unadorned straitened trained disciplined stinted

Adj, adv, name, noun(1 words)

Verb(6 words)

shut in dwarfed schooled sworn off redressing atoning

Adj, name, noun(2 words)

continent shaker

Name, noun, verb(1 words)

Noun(38 words)

subsistence hermit starvation pariah loner dervish anchorite fakir abstainer beadsman sannyasi stylite marabout cenobite teetotaler gymnosophist pillarist yogin solitudinarian eremite

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lay brother religieux banian bhikshu Rechabite hermitess caloyer desert fathers Hieronymite seclusionist grand prior hieromonach teetotalist nephalist Encratite hydropot Pythagorist Apostolici

Noun, verb(4 words)

squaring purifying repenting righting

plain spoken simple-speaking self-abnegating pillar saint self-forgetful Timon of Athens bedridden invalid cloistered monk closet cynic desert saints abbacomes conventual prior lay abbot nephalistic sexually abstinent wedded to poverty water-drinker

Name, noun(1 words)

Prep_phrase(1 words)

Proper Noun(1 words)

Informal (23)

Adj, name, noun, verb, slang(4 words)

mean spare lean slim

Adj, adv, name, noun, verb, slang(2 words)

Adj, noun, verb, slang(3 words)

simple skimp yogi

Adj, adv, noun, slang(1 words)

Adj, adv, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, name, noun, phrase, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, intj, name, noun, slang(1 words)

Intj, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, noun, slang(2 words)

Name, noun, verb, slang(2 words)

Adj, slang(1 words)

Adj, verb, slang(1 words)

Name, noun, slang(1 words)

Noun, slang(2 words)

homebody anchoress

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