Synonym: abstainer, ascetical, austere, spartan. Similar words: nascent, ascertain, heretic, genetic, athletic, pathetic, aesthetic, cosmetic. Meaning: [ə'setɪk] 
n. someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline. adj. 1. pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline 2. practicing great self-denial.
n. someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline. adj. 1. pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline 2. practicing great self-denial. 
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31. The ordinary Yogi - ascetic has a fantastic ― a fantastically distracting, a fascinating ― life!
32. At times, so tightly did they draw , the mouth became stern and harsh, even ascetic.
33. We normally see an ascetic ( Sadhu ) meditating in a Yogic pose.
34. A hindu ascetic or religious mendicant, especially one who performs feats of magic or endurance.
35. Ascetic and pragmatic, in their remote monastic eyrie they remained aloof from mundane strife, wrapped in meditation that knew no gods or elements of magic.
36. In contemporary Shanghai, architectural styles all coincide – the crassest postmodern revivalism and the purest ascetic modernism.
37. He is ascetic and has a good attitude towards everything.
38. So, therefore, we must take up, he suggests, an ascetic path,engaging only, as he says, in "those works" that are fit "for such men as come proud, open-eyed" and laughing to the tomb.
39. The ascetic saint and the detached sage fail in this respect to be complete human beings.
40. He simply smile and said, " I am indeed an ascetic person. "
41. Vanamee turned his lean ascetic face toward him, his black eyes fixed attentively.
42. To survive on this ascetic diet, Pinus longaeva invests very little energy in growth.
43. He left the luxuries of the court for the life of an ascetic.
44. For instance, Leo Tolstoy, a great and good man, at one time a sensualist, has now turned ascetic; a common evolution in the lives of the saints.
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45. Tales of plentiful pearls, exotic spices, and ascetic holy men, like the present-day sadhu shown here, appear in pages on India in Marco's book from the late 1290s, The Description of the World.
46. Christian family ethics in Medieval Europe includes marriage ethics, conjugal ethics and parent-child ethics. It is provided with characteristic of ascetic, contradictoriness and flexibility.
47. A Hindu ascetic, or sadhu, wrapped in a bright-red cloth, smokes underneath a vad (banyan) tree outside a temple in Mumbai (Bombay), India.
More similar words: nascent, ascertain, heretic, genetic, athletic, pathetic, aesthetic, cosmetic, magnetic, energetic, aesthetics, arithmetic, kinesthetic, theoretical, et cetera, price tag, fiasco, piece together, ascribe, fascinating, habeas corpus, scent, scene, descend, scenery, discern, scenario, visceral, acquiesce, senescent.