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Definition: Abstemious |
AbstemiousAdjective1. Sparing in consumption of especially food and drink; "the pleasures of the table, never of much consequence to one naturally abstemious"- John Galsworthy. 2. Marked by temperance in indulgence; "abstemious meals"; "a light eater"; "a light smoker"; "ate a light supper". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "abstemious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Abstemious \Ab*ste"mi*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression abstemius; ab, abs root of temetum intoxicating drink.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Abstemious according to Fabius and Aulus Gellius, is compounded of abs and temetum. "Temetum" was a strong, intoxicating drink, allied to the Greek methu (strong drink). Vinum prisca lingua temetum appellabant." - Aulus Gellius, x. 23. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: AbstemiousSynonym: light(a) (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: gluttonous (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Temperance | Adjective: temperate, moderate, sober, frugal, sparing; abstemious, abstinent; within compass; measured; (sufficient). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Abstemious |
| English words defined with "abstemious": Temperate Zone. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "abstemious": Epicure. (references) |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EPICURE, n. An opponent of Epicurus, an abstemious philosopher who, holding that pleasure should be the chief aim of man, wasted no time in gratification from the senses. |
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| "Abstemious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Abstemious" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 22 | 74,468 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "abstemious": abstemious habits ♦ abstemious meal. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "abstemious": semi-abstemious. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
abstemious | 8 |
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| Language | Translations for "abstemious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | besadig (moderate, reasonable, sober, staid, temperate). (various references) | |
Albanian | i përkorë (abstinent, chaste, continent, moderate), i kursyer (abstinent, careful, cheap, close, economic, frugal, penurious, provident, skimpy, thrifty). (various references) | |
Arabic | معتدل (balmy, clement, conservative, erect, genial, gentle, low key, measured, meek, middle, mild, moderate, modest, reasonable, soft, steady, straight, temperate, upright), غير مسرف في الأكل والشرب. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | умерен (abstinent, conservative, equable, frugal, gentle, medium, mezzo, mild, moderate, philosophical, reasonable, restrained, slack, sober, sparing, temperate, tempered), скромен (chaste, conservative, decent, decorous, demure, frugal, humble, maidenlike, maidenly, mean, modest, obscure, quakerish, quiet, retiring, shamefaced, simple, small, unambitious, unassuming, unobtrusive, unpresuming, unpretending, unpretentious), въздържан (demure, inaccessible, incommunicative, moderate, self contained), пестелив (canny, economical, forehanded, frugal, husbandly, near, parsimonious, provident, saving, spare, sparing, thrifty). (various references) | |
Chinese | 节制. (various references) | |
Czech | zdrženlivý (abstinent, cold, continent, reserved, restrained, undemonstrative), střídmý (sober, sparing, temperate), skromný (demure, frugal, humble, limited, lowly, modest, reserved, retiring, unassuming, unpretentious). (various references) | |
Dutch | sober (moderate, reasonable, sober, staid, temperate), nuchter (academic, sober, staid, temperate), matig (moderate, reasonable, sober, staid, temperate), bezadigd (sober, staid, temperate). (various references) | |
Esperanto | sobra (sober, staid, temperate). (various references) | |
Faeroese | gløggur (acute, astute, intelligent, sagacious, shrewd, sober, staid, temperate). (various references) | |
Farsi | پارسامنش.مرتاض , پرهیزکار (Continent, Inward, Righteous, Virtuous), ممسک درخوردونوش ولذات , مخالف استعمال مشروبات الکلی . (various references) | |
Finnish | pidättyväinen (reserved). (various references) | |
French | sobre (abstinent). (various references) | |
German | mäßig (frugal, frugally, indifferent, lukewarm, mediocre, middling, moderate, moderately, modest, reasonable, sober, staid, temperate, undistinguished), enthaltsam (abstemiously, abstentious, abstinent, abstinently, chaste, chastely, continent, moderate, teetotal). (various references) | |
Greek | συγκρατημένος (pent up, reserved, temperate), φειδωλός (sparing, thrifty), εγκρατήσ (abstainer, abstinent, continent, self contained, sober, temperate), εγκρατής (temperate), λιτός (frugal, terse). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מת זר (abstinent, ascetic, self denying), מסתפק במועט, פרוש (abstinent, chaste, commentary, construction, exegesis, explanation, interpretation, reading, seclusive, self denying), "ור. (various references) | |
Hungarian | mértékletes (frugal, moderate, self-denying, sober). (various references) | |
Italian | astemio (non-drinker, teetotal, teetotaler, temperate). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 禁欲的 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | き"よくてき. (various references) | |
Korean | 소박한. (various references) | |
Manx | sheelt (moderate, sober, temperate). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abstemiousay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sóbrio (abstinent, austere, frugal, restrained, sober, staid, temperate, terse), comedido (moderate, prudent, reasonable, restrained, sober, staid, temperate, unobtrusive). (various references) | |
Romanian | abstinent (abstainer, abstinent, chaste, continent, pussyfoot, teetotal, teetotaller, temperate), sobru (abstinent, austere, severe, sober, soberly, sparing, temperate, temperately), moderat (gentle, mild, moderate, moderately, rational, reasonable, steady, temperate), cumpãtat (abstinent, measured, mild, moderate, reserved, sober, temperate, thrifty, well balanced). (various references) | |
Russian | умеренный (abstinent, conservative, measurable, medium, mild, moderate, modest, reasonable, temperate). (various references) | |
Scottish | stuama (modest, sober, temperate). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uzdržljiv (abstinent, continent, offish, restrained, self contained, sober), umeren (abstinent, gentle, moderate, modest, reasonable, temperate). (various references) | |
Spanish | abstemio, -a, abstemio (abstainer, abstentious, teetotaler, teetotaller, temperate), sobrio (abstentious, levelheaded, sober, sober minded, sober-headed, soberly). (various references) | |
Swedish | återhållsam (abstinent, continent, guarded, restrained, undemonstrative). (various references) | |
Turkish | az ile yetinen, kanaatkâr (abstinent, contented, frugal, thrifty). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стриманий (abstentious, abstinent, ascetic, chary, chaste, checked, close, collected, composed, continent, coy, demure, discreet, dry, guarded, low key, measured, offish, restrained, reticent, self controlled, self-composed, spartan, stand off, temperate, undemonstrative, well balanced), ощадливий (canny, chary, economic, economical, frugal, housewifely, inexpensive, parsimonious, provident, prudent, saving, scanty), бережливий (chary, frugal), помірний (frugal, measurable, medium, mild, modest, sparing, temperate, tepid). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiết chế, có điều độ sơ s i, đạm bạc (lenten, meager, meagre). (various references) | |
Welsh | sobr (abstinent, serious, sober), cymedrol (abstinent, moderate, temperate). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "abstemious": abstemiously, abstemiousness, abstemiousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Abstemious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: absemious, abstemioous, abstenious, abtemious, Alstemus, arsenious. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "abstemious" (pronounced 'Ab*ste"mi*ous'): Abdominous, Abiogenous, Ablatitious, Abnormous, Absentaneous, Absonous, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Acanthaceous, Acanthocarpous, Acanthocephalous, Acanthophorous, Acanthopodious, Acanthopterous, Acanthopterygious, Acarpellous, Acarpous, Acclivitous, Acclivous, Acephalous, Acetabuliferous, Acetarious, Acetous, Achilous, Achlamydeous, Acholous, Achromatous, Achroous, Achylous, Achymous, Acidiferous, Acidulous, Acinaceous, Acotyledonous, Acrimonious, Acrocarpous, Acrogenous, Acronyctous, Acrosporous, Acrotomous, Actinophorous, Aculeous, Acuminous, Addititious, Adelphous, Adenophorous, Adenophyllous, Adenous, Adiaphorous, Adipocerous. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-m-o-s-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: amitoses, amosites, atomises, iambuses, mousiest, outbeams, subatoms, subitems. | |
-3 letters: abioses, amosite, atomies, atomise, autisms, bemists, besmuts, biomass, busiest, miseats, misseat, missout, mitoses, mutases, outbeam, samites, somites, soubise, subatom, subitem, submits, subsite, tamises, timeous. | |
-4 letters: abuses, ambits, amuses, assume, autism, basest, basset, bastes, beasts, beauts, bemist, besmut, besoms, besots, biases, biomes, biotas, boasts, boites. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-m-o-s-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: abstemiously. | |
+3 letters: ambitiousness. | |
+4 letters: abstemiousness, subatmospheric, subnormalities, superambitious. | |
+5 letters: ambitiousnesses, basidiomycetous, discombobulates. | |
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