abstemious

Speech parts

1. abstemious - Adjective

2. abstemious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

light continent temperate sober self-denying abstinent abstentious self-abnegating franciscan lenten spartan carnivore cannibal thrifty mean
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Antonyms

gluttonous immoderate epicurean ree crump cronk
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Related terms

abstinence abstain abstention abstinent abstainer abstainment

Phrases with the word

be abstemious

Examples

It 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

Close letter words and terms

abstaining from alcohol abstainment abstand abstemiously abstemiousness abstenance