Clues for the word "ASCETIC"
We've had 47 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 61 times in crosswords. It was last seen in King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph crossword on August 23, 2024.
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
- 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
- LA Times - November 11, 2011
- New York Times - August 27, 2011
- Netword - June 18, 2011
- And in 31 more crossword puzzles...