abstemious

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ab=ste=mi=ous

CIDE DICTIONARY

abstemious, a. [L. abstemius; ab, abs + root of temetum intoxicating drink.].

•  Abstaining from wine.  [1913 Webster]

  "Under his special eye
  Abstemious I grew up and thrived amain."  [1913 Webster]
•  Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.  [1913 Webster]

  "Instances of longevity are chiefly among the abstemious."  [1913 Webster]
•  Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an abstemious diet.  Gibbon.  [1913 Webster]
•  Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life.  Pope.  [1913 Webster]
•  Promotive of abstemiousness.  [1913 Webster]

  "Such is the virtue of the abstemious well."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

abstemious, adj. (of a person, habit, etc.) moderate, not self-indulgent, esp. in eating and drinking.

Derivative

abstemiously adv. abstemiousness n.

Etymology

L abstemius (as AB-, temetum strong drink)

THESAURUS

abstemious

Apostolic, Encratic, Lenten, Pythagorean, Rechabite, Shaker, Spartan, Stoic, abstentious, abstinent, ascetic, austere, celibate, chaste, continent, dwarfed, dwarfish, exiguous, frugal, fruitarian, impoverished, jejune, lean, limited, meager, mean, miserly, narrow, nephalistic, niggardly, on the wagon, paltry, parsimonious, poor, puny, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, self-abnegating, self-denying, sexually abstinent, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, sober, spar, spare, sparing, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, sworn off, teetotal, temperate, thin, unnourishing, unnutritious, vegetarian, watered, watery

ROGET THESAURUS

abstemious

Temperance

N temperance, moderation, sobriety, soberness, forbearance, abnegation, self-denial, self-restraint, self-control, frugality, vegetarianism, teetotalism, total abstinence, abstinence, abstemiousness, Encratism, prohibition, system of Pythagoras, system of Cornaro, Pythagorism, Stoicism, vegetarian, Pythagorean, gymnosophist, teetotaler, abstainer, designated driver, Encratite, fruitarian, hydropot, temperate, moderate, sober, frugal, sparing, abstemious, abstinent, within compass, measured, on the wagon, on the water wagon, dry, Pythagorean, vegetarian, teetotal, appetitus rationi obediant, l'abstenir pour jouir c'est l'epicurisme de la rai, trahit sua quemque voluptas.