Dictionary Entry
ascetic
ascetic is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 5 senses
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- 1adjective
Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe.
- 2noun
In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme self-denial, and self-mortification; a hermit; a recluse; hence, one who practices extreme rigor and self-denial in religious things.
- 3noun
someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
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- 4adjective
practicing great self-denial- William James
"Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"
"a desert nomad's austere life"
- 5adjective
pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline
"ascetic practices"
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