abstemious
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adjective- 1.
Refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink; sparing in diet; abstinent, temperate.
Đồng nghĩa: abstinent, sober, temperate
- 2.
Sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.
Đồng nghĩa: abstentious, continent, abstemious, otherish, selfless, self-abnegatory, self-denying, self-flagellatory, self-sacrificing, unselfish, abstemious, calm, collected, composed, continent, cool, dispassionate, inexcitable, imperturbable, regular, sedate, sober, steady, staid, temperate, undisturbed, unexcitable, unexcited, unimpassioned, unpassionate, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirred, unsusceptible
- 3.
Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation.
Đồng nghĩa: frugal, sparing, abstemious, canny, chary, moderate, cheap, close with a buck, economic, economical, frugal, husbandly, huswifely, parsimonious, penny-pinching, prudent, spareful, sparing, spary, thrifty, tight, tightwad
- 4.
Marked by, or spent in, abstinence.
an abstemious life
Đồng nghĩa: temperate
- 5.
(rare)Promotive of abstemiousness.
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From Latin abstēmius (abstaining from wine); from ab, abs (from) + tēmus, a root of tēmētum (intoxicating drink, especially strong mead or wine) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *temH- (dark (referring to the colour of wine))) -ous.