1. abstemious - Adjective
2. abstemious - Adjective Satellite
Abstaining from wine.
Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.
Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an abstemious diet.
Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life.
Promotive of abstemiousness.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt is outrageous that a strictly abstemious reader should sit in judgement on a poet a little drunk. Ausonius
Someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced. You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly. Paul Graham
When her guests were awash with champagne and with gin She was recklessly sober, as sharp as a pin: An abstemious man would reel at her look As she rolled a bright eye and praised his last book. William Plomer
the pleasures of the table, never of much consequence to one naturally abstemious Source: Internet
abstemious with the use of adverbs Source: Internet
a light eater Source: Internet