ascetic

1. 1.

   pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline

   “ascetic practices”

   Synonymsascetical
2. 2.

   practicing great self-denial

   “Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it”

   “a desert nomad's austere life”

   “a spartan diet”

   “a spartan existence”

   Synonymsasceticalausterespartan

   Similarabstemious

1. 1.

   someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline

   Synonymsabstainer

   Broaderreligious person

   Narrowerpuritanstylite

Other forms of ascetic

plural

ascetics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ascetic

What does ascetic mean?

ascetic means "pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ascetic?

ascetic has 3 syllables: a-scet-ic. The stress falls on "scet". In IPA it is /əˈsɛtɪk/.

What is another word for ascetic?

Close synonyms include ascetical, ascetical, austere, spartan, abstainer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ascetic a common word?

ascetic is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ascetic?

1 word rhymes with ascetic. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.