abstemious.

Moderate and self-restrained in eating or drinking.

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Words that belong together

• abstemious habits
• abstemious diet

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His abstemious habits survived the lavish banquet.

She remained abstemious even when wine flowed freely.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more abstemious; superlative most abstemious where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.