ascetic
adjective
[ əˈsɛtɪk ]
• characterized by severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.
• "an ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and manual labour"
Similar:
austere,
self-denying,
abstinent,
abstemious,
non-indulgent,
self-disciplined,
frugal,
simple,
rigorous,
strict,
severe,
hair-shirt,
spartan,
monastic,
monkish,
monklike,
nunlike,
reclusive,
solitary,
cloistered,
eremitic,
anchoritic,
hermitic,
celibate,
continent,
chaste,
puritanical,
self-abnegating,
other-worldly,
mortified,
ascetic
noun
• a person who follows an ascetic life.
Similar:
abstainer,
recluse,
hermit,
solitary,
anchorite,
anchoress,
desert saint,
celibate,
puritan,
nun,
monk,
fakir,
Sufi,
dervish,
yogi,
rishi,
sannyasi,
sadhu,
muni,
hikikomori,
gymnosophist,
marabout,
santon,
eremite,
stylite,
pillar saint,
pillar hermit,
pillarist,
aerialist,
cenobite,
Origin:
mid 17th century: from medieval Latin asceticus or Greek askētikos, from askētēs ‘monk’, from askein ‘to exercise’.
