MEANING
1. Practicing severe self-denial and avoiding pleasure, often for religious reasons.
2. A person who practices severe self-denial, often for religious or philosophical reasons.
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Self-imposed deprivation, religious discipline, conflicting attitudes toward comfort.Show the purpose behind spareness rather than treating all bare rooms as ascetic.
Words that belong together
- ascetic life
- ascetic discipline
- ascetic habits
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He maintained ascetic habits even after inheriting the fortune.
The community's ascetic discipline excluded luxuries but not kindness.
She rejected the ascetic life her guardian had chosen for her.
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- ascetic
Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Chosen renunciation distinguishes it from involuntary poverty; also a noun for someone who lives this way. Usually more ascetic and most ascetic for degree. Derived noun asceticism.
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