abstemious
Meaning of abstemious
adjective
- indulging only very moderately in something, especially food and drink.
‘We only had a bottle.’ ‘Very abstemious of you.’
early 17th century: from Latin abstemius, (from ab- ‘from’ + a word related to temetum ‘alcoholic drink’) + -ous.
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Hyphenation of abstemious
ab-stemious
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- abstemious is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
abstemious synonyms
Meaning light:
Meaning showing moderation or self-restraint:
Meaning refraining from an activity or from the consumption of something, especially alcohol:
Meaning (of living conditions or a way of life) having no comforts or luxuries:
Meaning average in amount, intensity, quality, or degree:
Meaning characterized by reserve or moderation; unemotional or dispassionate:
Meaning not affected by alcohol; not drunk:
Meaning characterized by severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons:
Meaning having or displaying a very strict or censorious moral attitude towards self-indulgence or sex:
Meaning showing or characterized by austerity or a lack of comfort or luxury:
Meaning demanding that rules concerning behaviour are obeyed and observed:
Meaning (of something bad or undesirable) very great; intense:
abstemious antonyms
Meaning having or showing a lack of self-control; immoderate:
Translation of abstemious
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