Ascetic synonyms
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Without concern for ones own advantage; selfless or self-sacrificing
Straightforward; frank or candid:
Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigour; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration.
religious devotee
A person who has retired into seclusion for religious reasons.
self-denier
self-tormenter
A member of a Muslim holy sect who lives by begging
A person performing penance under the direction of a confessor.
Any member of a Protestant group in England and the American colonies that in the 16th and 17th cent. wanted to make the Church of England simpler in its services and stricter about morals
A person who practices yoga
flagellant
A person who engages in or submits to flagellation
mortifier of the flesh
A person who withdraws from the world to live in seclusion and often in solitude.
moderate (related)
Mild; calm; gentle; not violent
modest (related)
Observing conventional proprieties in speech, behavior, or dress, especially in the avoidance of arousing sexual interest.
severe (related)
Stern or forbidding, as in manner or appearance:
See syn. study at (related)
Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
Of or in a state of celibacy
Having or characterized by discipline
essene
The definition of exacting is making excessive demands, or requiring great patience and effort.
Firmly in position; stationary:
The definition of harsh is someone or something unpleasant to the senses or feelings, or someone who is crude or extremely cruel.
The definition of precise is exact.
self-disciplined
Having self-discipline, be in control of one's self and one's actions.
Alternative capitalization of stoic
Not loose or vague; exact or precise:
Aloof; austere
anchoret
Alternative spelling of anchorite.
ascesis
The definition of asceticism is a practice in which one gets rid of worldly pleasures and focuses on thinking, particularly for religious or spiritual purposes.
The quality of being austere.
sabbatarian
A Christian who favors rigid observance of Sunday as the Sabbath
Taking action that sacrifices one's own benefit for the good of others.
self-mortification
One leading a solitary or secluded life.
Not luxurious or ornate; plain; austere
Agent noun of abstain; one who abstains; especially, one who abstains from something they enjoy, such as the use of intoxicating liquors, or one who abstains for religious reasons; one who practices self-denial. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
simple-speaking
unpoetical
Not poetical
Clearly distinguished or delineated:
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