Dictionary Entry
abstinent
abstinent is a 9-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate.
- 2noun
One who abstains.
- 3noun
One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3d century.
- 4noun
a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages
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- 5adjective
self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink
"not totally abstinent but abstemious"
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