abstemious
Adjective
- sparing in consumption of especially food and drink; - John Galsworthy
- "the pleasures of the table, never of much consequence to one naturally abstemious"
Adjective Satellite
- marked by temperance in indulgence
- "abstemious with the use of adverbs"
Adj
- Refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink; sparing in diet; abstinent, temperate.
- Sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.
- Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation.
- Marked by, or spent in, abstinence.
- Promotive of abstemiousness.
Examples
- an abstemious life
Origin / Etymology
From Latin abstēmius (“abstaining from wine”); from ab, abs (“from”) + tēmus, a root of tēmētum (“intoxicating drink, especially strong mead or wine”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *temH- (“dark (referring to the colour of wine)”)) + -ous.
Synonyms
light, abstemious, abstentious, abstinent, calm, canny, chary, cheap, close with a buck, collected, composed, continent, cool, dispassionate, economical, frugal, husbandly, huswifely, imperturbable, inexcitable, parsimonious, penny-pinching, prudent, regular, sedate, self-abnegatory, self-denying, self-flagellatory, self-sacrificing, sober, spareful, sparing, spary, staid, steady, temperate, thrifty, tight, tightwad, undisturbed, unexcitable, unexcited, unimpassioned, unpassionate, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirred, unsusceptible
Antonyms
gluttonous, extravagant, frugal, hedonistic, nonabstemious, nonabstinent, nontemperate, squandering, stingy, unabstemious, unsober, voracious
Scrabble Score: 14
abstemious: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordabstemious: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
abstemious: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary