ascetic （常指因宗教原因）苦行的，禁欲的，过清苦生活的；n. 苦行者；禁欲者

ascetic

　　Definition:

　　ascetic - adj. ， variants or less commonly ascetical.

　　1 : practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline

　　an ascetic monk

　　an ascetic diet

　　2 : austere in appearance, manner, or attitude

　　ascetic - n.

　　someone who lives an ascetic life, often for religious reasons

　　Choose the Right Synonym for ascetic

　　SEVERE, STERN, AUSTERE, ASCETIC mean given to or marked by strict discipline and firm restraint.

　　SEVERE implies standards enforced without indulgence or laxity and may suggest harshness.

　　severe military discipline

　　STERN stresses inflexibility and inexorability of temper or character.

　　stern arbiters of public morality

　　AUSTERE stresses absence of warmth, color, or feeling and may apply to rigorous restraint, simplicity, or self-denial.

　　living an austere life in the country

　　ASCETIC implies abstention from pleasure and comfort or self-indulgence as spiritual discipline.

　　the ascetic life of the monks

　　Example Sentences

　　Patterson's collection begins on the walls of the stairway to his basement. "That's where Cindy draws the line. That's probably a real good idea," he says. Mattsson, ascetic for a bachelor, imposes the same rule on himself. LeBeau, who has never been married, is much less restrained.

　　—Tom Harpole, Air & Space, December 1999/January 2000

　　By Hollywood standards, Calley's career path may seem enigmatic, but then, so is his personality. If Mark Canton, the previous Sony president, was the boastful, Armani-clad big spender, Calley is downright ascetic, a man who disdains Hollywood profligacy.

　　—Peter Bart, GQ, August 1997

　　He converted to Catholicism and, after a long period of intense self-questioning, became a Trappist monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, which, at the time, was as ascetic and demanding as any monastery of the Middle Ages.

　　—Julius Lester, Falling Pieces of the Broken Sky, 1990

　　But the Bahamas outpost showed how inaccurate Bankman-Fried’s ascetic image had become.

　　—Tim Craig, Drew Harwell, Nitasha Tiku, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 2022

　　But the Bahamas outpost showed how inaccurate Bankman-Fried’s ascetic image had become.

　　—Tim Craig, Drew Harwell, Nitasha Tiku, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 2022

　　Prince, who was raised Seventh-day Adventist, contrasted blunt sexuality with a nearly ascetic spirituality.

　　—Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022