Abstemious

Adjective

 * 1)  Abstaining from wine.
 * 2) 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) Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation
 * 4) Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life.
 * 5)  Promotive of abstemiousness

Adverbs for Abstemious
ascetically; piously;  wholly;  strictly;  austerely;  rigorously;  proudly;  awkwardly; fanatically;  ridiculously;  absurdly;  care- fully; abominably;  cautiously;  correctly; habitually;  warily;  ostentatiously;  inconspicuously; glaringly; conspicuously; reluctantly; unctuously; smugly; grimly.

Thesaurus
Apostolic; Encratic; Lenten; Pythagorean; Rechabite; Shaker; Spartan; Stoic; abstentious; abstinent; ascetic; austere; celibate; chaste; continent; dwarfed; dwarfish; exiguous; frugal; fruitarian; impoverished; jejune; lean; limited; meager; mean; miserly; narrow; nephalistic; niggardly; on the wagon; paltry; parsimonious; poor; puny; scant; scanty; scrawny; scrimp; scrimpy; self-abnegating; self-denying; sexually abstinent; skimp; skimpy; slender; slight; slim; small; sober; spar; spare; sparing; starvation; stingy; stinted; straitened; stunted; subsistence; sworn off; teetotal; temperate; thin; unnourishing; unnutritious; vegetarian; watered; watery

Etymology
From abstemius:; from ab:, abs: + root of temetum:.

Synonyms
abstentious, abstinent, continent, self-abnegating, self-denying, sober, temperate

Derived terms

 * abstemiousness
 * unabstemious

Translations

 * Italian: ,


 * Spanish: sobrio


 * Bulgarian: въздържан, скромен


 * Swedish: återhållsam, måttfull


 * Bulgarian: пестелив


 * Spanish: abstemio


 * Spanish: abstemio


 * : въздържан, умерен