Abstemious Synonyms and Antonyms

ăb-stēmē-əs, əb-
Exercising moderation and self-restraint in appetites and behavior
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. sober
  2. temperate
  3. abstinent
  4. moderate
  5. continent
  6. ascetic
  7. austere
  8. light
  9. frugal
  10. self-denying
  11. sparing
  12. encratic
  13. straitlaced
  14. self-abnegating
Antonyms:
  1. gluttonous
  2. greedy
  3. hungry

Words Related to Abstemious

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Abstemious Sentence Examples

  • Abstemious in his habits, he possessed great physical endurance.

  • Browne was a man of abstemious habits, charitable disposition, and impressive eloquence.

  • He went thoroughly into the practice as well as the theory of Stoicism, and lived so abstemious and laborious a life that he injured his health.

  • His daily living being very plain, he had a peculiar taste for sudden and isolated luxuries; he was an abstemious epicure.

  • Grave and serious in manner, speaking slowly, but with energetic gestures, simple and abstemious in his life - his daily bill of fare being reckoned as hardly costing a couple of francs - Leo XIII.

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