abstemiousadjective
uk/æbˈstiː.mi.əs/us/æbˈstiː.mi.əs/formalnot doing things that give you pleasure, especially not eating good food or drinking alcohol
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Abstaining and refraining
- abstain
- abstention
- abstinence
- back off
- beg off
- fast
- give
- give (sth) up
- give up sth
- hors de combat
- keep
- keep (sb/sth) out of sth
- not be in the business of sth idiom
- refrain
- step back
- stop
- stop short of sth idiom
- swear off sth
- touch
- wouldn't touch sth with a barge pole idiom
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abstemiously
adverb uk/æbˈstiː.mi.əs.li/us/æbˈstiː.mi.əs.li/
Examples from literature
- He was sober and abstemious in his food, and simple to an extreme in his garments.
- His life was as abstemious and regular as his means were small.
- It is acknowledged even by his enemies, that in regard to wine, he was abstemious.
- One object that I had in view in adopting my abstemious way of life was to save a little money to buy books.
- Though compactly built, he was generally spare and wasted from incessant studies, hard labor, and an abstemious life.