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    ascetic - Dictionary definition and meaning for word ascetic

    Definition
    (noun) someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
    Synonyms : abstainer
    Definition
    (adj) pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline
    Synonyms : ascetical
    Example Sentence
    • ascetic practices
    Definition
    (adj) practicing great self-denial
    Synonyms : ascetical , austere , spartan
    Example Sentence
    • 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
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someone who leaves all AESTHETICs is an ascetic

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sounds like acetic—remember acetic acid(vinegar)i.e., sour in taste, one who has made is life sour in taste, i.e., away from pleasures for religious purposes

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Aastic(Opposite of Nastic) Is ascetic

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ASS+SEPTIC(infected)....a person who has got highly SEPTIC ASS will be a ASCETIC.......he cannot live a normal life....

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ascetic ~ acidic; he is living ascetic life by drinking and eating only acidic things (not good in taste) and avoid anything have good taste.

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A Serious Clergy Excludes the taking (TIC) of material comforts from his life, and practise rigid self-denial.

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ascetic means nastik in hindi... remember amithabh bacchan's film nastik.. where doesn believe in god

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abstemious or abstemious zealot.

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Ascetic = Someone who lives ascetic life.

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