Dictionary Entry
abstemious
abstemious is a 10-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Abstaining from wine. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Abstaining from wine.
- 2adjective
Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.
- 3adjective
Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an abstemious diet.
- 4adjective
Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life.
- 5adjective
Promotive of abstemiousness.
- 6adjective
sparing in consumption of especially food and drink- John Galsworthy
"the pleasures of the table, never of much consequence to one naturally abstemious"
- 7adjective
marked by temperance in indulgence
"abstemious with the use of adverbs"
"a light eater"
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