ascetic

ascetic has 5 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• a.. Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe.
• n.. 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.
• n.. someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
• a.. practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"
• a.. pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline; "ascetic practices"