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

1. adjective. Abstaining from wine.
2. adjective. Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.
3. adjective. Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an abstemious diet.
4. adjective. Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life.
5. adjective. Promotive of abstemiousness.
6. adjective. sparing in consumption of especially food and drink- John Galsworthy

   "the pleasures of the table, never of much consequence to one naturally abstemious"

7. adjective. marked by temperance in indulgence

   "abstemious with the use of adverbs"

   "a light eater"

   Synonyms: light

Synonyms

light

Common word forms

abstemiously, abstemiousness

Words from these letters

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