Clues for the word "ASCETIC"
We've had 47 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 64 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on December 03, 2025.
Definition of ascetic
- 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.
Referring Clues
- Monk, perhaps
- Religious self-denier
- No hedonist, he
- One who leads a Spartan lifestyle
- One leading a spartan lifestyle
- Spartan
- Hedonist's antithesis
- Like some monks
- Hardly self-indulgent
- Rigorously abstinent
- Austere
- Cowl wearer
- Like a monk's life
- Self-denying
- Hedonist's opposite
- Cowl wearer
- Self-denying one
- Strictly self-denying
- Buddhist monk, e.g.
- Far from self-indulgent
- Mahatma Gandhi, for one
- Religious hermit
- Monkish type
- St. Francis of Assisi, for one
- Austerely simple
- Eremite
- Religious recluse
- Person who sounds vinegary
- Hermit
- Austere character like vinegar hiding a saint
- His view of life is austere, one might say sour
- One practising self-denial
- Abstinent church admitted to wine consumption at first
- Like Irish lake lacking hermit
- One practising self-denial as a discipline
- A changed sect in charge of yogi
- Many a monk
- Austere, Spartan
- Austere, abstinent
- Puritan saint drowned in acid
- Abstemious, self-denying
- A quote's arisen about Catholic recluse
- Opposite of "epicurean"
- Essene, for instance
- Severely self-disciplined sort
- Antithesis of a hedonist
- Recluse
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - December 03, 2025
- Daily American - September 18, 2025
- Daily American - May 10, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 23, 2024
- New York Times - January 27, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 30, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - October 13, 2023
- Daily American - September 18, 2023
- Daily American - May 10, 2023
- New York Times - February 12, 2022
- Wall Street Journal - January 10, 2018
- Evening Standard Quick - October 06, 2017
- Daily American - September 18, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - August 18, 2017
- Netword - July 22, 2017
- LA Times - July 02, 2017
- Daily American - May 10, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - March 31, 2016
- Wall Street Journal - March 06, 2015
- New York Times - November 28, 2014
- LA Times - June 22, 2014
- Guardian Speedy - April 06, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - March 03, 2014
- New York Times - September 28, 2012
- Guardian Everyman - September 16, 2012
- Guardian Quick - May 16, 2012
- Washington Post - April 29, 2012
- Netword - February 19, 2012
- LA Times - February 09, 2012
- Universal - November 30, 2011
- And in 34 more crossword puzzles...