Crossword-Solution: ASCETIC 7 letters, 94 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Ascetic	a.	Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe.
Ascetic	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.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
ASCETIC	anagram	CASTICE

We have 94 clues for the answer “ASCETIC”

Clue	Answers
Hedonist's antithesis	1 answer
Opposite of "epicurean"	1 answer
One who leads a Spartan lifestyle	1 answer
One leading a Spartan lifestyle	1 answer
No hedonist, he	1 answer
Monkish type	1 answer
Monk, perhaps	1 answer
Many a monk	1 answer
Liver of a simple life	1 answer
Like a monk's life	1 answer
Hedonist's opposite	1 answer
One practicing self-denial as a discipline	1 answer
AUSTERE life, one leading an	1 answer
Hardly self-indulgent	1 answer
Antithesis of a hedonist	1 answer
Austerely simple	1 answer
Buddhist monk, e.g.	1 answer
Hardly decadent	1 answer
Devotee of austerity.	1 answer
Essene, for example.	1 answer
Far from self-indulgent	1 answer
Hardly a hedonist	1 answer
Self-denying sort	1 answer
Practising self-denial	1 answer
Strictly self-denying	1 answer
Stern and bow of ship going in one sudden movement	1 answer
St. Francis of Assisi, for one	1 answer
St. Anthony was one	1 answer
Severely self-disciplined sort	1 answer
Severely self-disciplined	1 answer
Person who leads a strict life of self-denial	1 answer
Self-denying one	1 answer
Self-denying	1 answer
Self-denier	1 answer
Rigidly abstemious	1 answer
Renouncer of material comforts	1 answer
Religious self-denier	1 answer
Person who sounds vinegary	1 answer
Rigorously abstinent	2 answers
Mahatma Gandhi, for one	2 answers
Anchorite, e.g.	2 answers
Practicing great self-denial	2 answers
Dervish, e.g.	2 answers
Essene	2 answers
sannyasi	2 answers
stylite	2 answers
Religious hermit	3 answers
Hair shirt wearer	3 answers
Cowl wearer	3 answers
sufi	4 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TREAE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with ASCETIC (5)

Hester sought not to acquire anything beyond a subsistence, of the plainest and most ascetic description, for herself, and a simple abundance for her child.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

The features expressed nothing of monastic austerity, or of ascetic privations; on the contrary, it was a bold bluff countenance, with broad black eyebrows, a well-turned forehead, and cheeks as round and vermilion as those of a trumpeter, from which descended a long and curly black beard.

Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993

Now I knew that under ordinary conditions he no longer craved for this artificial stimulus, but I was well aware that the fiend was not dead but sleeping, and I have known that the sleep was a light one and the waking near when in periods of idleness I have seen the drawn look upon Holmes’s ascetic face, and the brooding of his deep-set and inscrutable eyes.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1994

That this superb woman, in whom he had seen all human grace and household force, should turn from him and all the brightness that he offered her—him and his future and his fortune and his fidelity—to muffle herself in ascetic rags and entomb herself in a cell was a confounding combination of the inexorable and the grotesque.

The American Henry James 1994

This ugly sunlit picture of the stupidity and cruelty of the earth sent the ascetic finally to his prayers for purification and new thoughts.

The Innocence of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1995

Quotes with ASCETIC (3)

We love men because they can never fake orgasms, even if they wanted to. Because they write poems, songs, and books in our honor. Because they never understand us, but they never give up. Because they can see beauty in women when women have long ceased to see any beauty in themselves. Because they come from little boys. Because they can churn out long, intricate, Machiavellian, or incredibly complex mathematics and physics equations, but they can be comparably clueless when i…

Paulo Coelho

I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a Church.... Of one thing I am certain. The religion of the future will have to be extremely ascetic, and by that I don't mean just going without food and drink.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Perfection Doesn’t Need Adornments or Accessories to Be Called ‘Perfect’. It’s more like 'living in the moment' which can’t be described even by The Wisest Ascetic on this earth.

Taranpreet Singh

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, WP, WSJ.

Used 64 times in crossword archives (1954–2024).