Word "ASCETIC" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline
Synonyms:
ascetical
Examples:
ascetic practices

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
practicing great self-denial
Synonyms:
ascetical, austere, spartan
Examples:
Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
Synonyms:
abstainer

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A beautiful woman ultimately becomes convent's latest nun (7)
One pursuing a life of strict self-discipline and abstention (7)
Austere and vinegary, masking trace of sugar
Hermit's complaint rescheduled at the end of unusual case (7)
Abstemious person The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 08 Jun 2025
Hedonist's antithesis
Religious type, but he'd be acid if his self-starter went (7)
Monk, perhaps
Self-denying Newsday 27 Apr 2025
Listen to vinegary hermit (7) Puzzler Cryptic 27 Apr 2025
Self-denying, abstemious
Austere type cites changes in a Conservative (7)
One who leads a Spartan lifestyle (7)
Loner cites trouble during account (7)
Self-denier
Practising self-denial (7) The Guardian Quick 18 Jan 2025
Lonely person's revolutionary ice acts (7)
Like this French facial movement, and like a hermit (7)
Abstemious expert goes back inside ... jerk! (7)
Hermit's performing ice acts (7)
Spartan battered case is partially plastic (7)
Abstinent pro catches streamer's debut on Twitch
Cacti grown in South-East are rather Spartan (7)
He's austere and sour about one point
Recluse Thomas Joseph 23 Aug 2024
Opposite of 'epicurean'
One strictly abstaining from worldly pleasures The Times Concise 19 Jul 2024
One who lives austerely (7)
Strict hermit (7)
Self-denying person Commuter 28 Jun 2024
Person who sounds vinegary
Hermit from a terrible sect in charge (7)
One who won't indulge in acid, according to some The Telegraph Toughie 12 Jun 2024
An unusual case with a twitch and he's most austere (7)
A spare man (7)
Strict in self-denial
Severely self-denying
Someone who practices self-denial as a spiritual discipline (7)
Doctor cites case of agoraphobic recluse (7)
Doctor cites case of agoraphobic recluse The Guardian Cryptic 11 Apr 2024
A spare person (7)
Strict-living sect discovered imprisoned by revolutionary spies The Guardian Quiptic 01 Apr 2024
Austere Cate's distressed, I see (7)
Person who practises self-denial as a spiritual discipline
Recluse beginning to appear agnostic is powerless The Guardian Cryptic 20 Mar 2024
Far from self-indulgent
Abstaining from pleasure
Abstemious individual (7)
It's no fun as a rule for him
A doubter, heartless and rigidly abstinent (7)
It's cast in ice by some hermit (7)
Hedonist's opposite New York Times 27 Jan 2024
Retrospective quote about South African abstainer (7)
Self-denying hermit (7)
Refer, upsettingly, to single, specific case made previously by abstemious type
Heard vinegary recluse (7)
One who lives a religious life of contemplation and self-denial The Times Specialist Sunday 26 Nov 2023
Practising self-denial The Guardian Quick 27 Oct 2023
Someone who eschews luxuries The Guardian Speedy 22 Jan 2023
Fan of austerity called out as an inflexible parasite The Guardian Cryptic 17 Jan 2023
Austerely simple Newsday 06 Nov 2022
Australian unusually cites creed's opening, being of austere outlook The Guardian Cryptic 09 Aug 2022
Refer to leaders of cult seen as backward or severe The Telegraph Cryptic 26 Jul 2022
Austere The Guardian Quick 26 May 2022
Self-denying The Guardian Quick 26 Jan 2022
Like putting up quote about monk
Stern and bow of ship going in one sudden movement The Times Cryptic 15 Oct 2021
Severely self-disciplined sort New York Times 21 May 2021
Self-denying Newsday 14 Mar 2021
Hermit, say, is sour about Society
Holy man's regular cassock with name returned
Essene, for instance The Guardian Speedy 28 Jun 2020
Austere detectives in CIA sent back The Telegraph Cryptic 18 Apr 2020
Austere knight leaves climb in Cairngorms, primarily
Frugal, like soccer team having had to spend pounds
Small vinegary drinks for abstainer, perhaps?
Doubter ignoring pressure to support a hermit
Spartan case working on nervous complaint
Put sulphur into a type of acid for a hermit
Abstinent church admitted to wine consumption at first
A quote's arisen about Catholic recluse
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