abstinent

abstinent has 5 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• a.. Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate.
• n.. One who abstains.
• n.. One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3d century.
• n.. a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages
• a.. self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink; "not totally abstinent but abstemious"