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Definition of abstemious in English: abstemiousadjective əbˈstiːmɪəsəbˈstimiəs Indulging only very moderately in something, especially food and drink. ‘We only had a bottle.’ ‘Very abstemious of you.’ “我们只喝了一瓶。”“你们真有节制啊。” Example sentencesExamples - A close family member confirmed that she lived a fairly simple and abstemious life, and spent some years in a nursing home before her death in May 1998.
- Judged alongside their abstemious Anglo-Saxon counterparts, they were seen as unruly, belligerent and not to be relied on, a slur that was extended to generations through media distortion and police discrimination.
- In personality they were frugal, abstemious, shrewd, accumulative, and solitary.
- Taylor portrays Hitler as a sour, arrogant, abstemious spoilsport and friend to small animals.
- There's still the same warm smile and shock of black hair, and there's clearly something to be said for her abstemious lifestyle for she looks a decade younger than it says on her birth certificate.
- Both were abstemious by nature, but knew how to enjoy themselves and were interesting company.
- New England in the 19th century was the apex of conformity: staid, stuffy and abstemious.
- On the other hand, I have hardly seen any pals because they are down the pub, so my main support now is Phil, an abstemious, gay, Welsh dancer who seems quite pleased that I share one of his lifestyle choices.
- Left to my own devices, I am an abstemious person, as innocent as a baby and jaw-droppingly naive.
- He took seriously his pledge made at the outset of the war that he would live a frugal and abstemious existence as long as the war lasted.
- The bill for our relatively abstemious meal worked out, with a tip, at nearly 40 leva a head.
- There is a trend for alcohol limits to become tighter - a trend more related to the increasing sobriety of the wider political climate than to the emergence of epidemiological evidence justifying a more abstemious policy.
- However, it was the abstemious Chartist family, the Cranstons, who really put the coffee houses' adversaries, the Glasgow tea rooms, on the map in the 1890s.
- When he sits down to celebrate his 40th birthday next Wednesday, this most abstemious of professionals can raise a glass to himself and genuinely declare he could not have done any more or any better.
- There is no evidence, however, that a single drinking bout in an otherwise abstemious person will lead to pancreatitis.
- I would follow the same abstemious regime, but unlike him I don't have an accommodating housekeeper.
- Robinson, famed for his Christian beliefs and his abstemious lifestyle, also found time to have lunch with his mother, who still lives in Leeds.
- Dalton was said to be abstemious but did indulge in a game of bowls on a Thursday.
- I considered a 48 hour fast, however decided that any gain that would be attained from this abstemious behaviour would be completely off-set by the onslaught of DT's that this effort would inevitably induce.
- Josiah Harlan was a pacifist, abstemious Pennsylvania Quaker stricken with a profound case of wanderlust.
Synonyms temperate, abstinent, austere, moderate, self-disciplined, self-denying, restrained, self-restrained, non-indulgent, sober, ascetic, puritanical, spartan, strict, severe, self-abnegating, hair-shirt
Derivativesadverb əbˈstiːmɪəsliəbˈstimiəsli Sims abstemiously declined anything alcoholic but before she knew it ‘three Martinis were whizzing around my bloodstream’. Example sentencesExamples - We'd ordered a bottle of Tiefenbrunner Pinot Grigio 2001 for €21 from a range of interesting and well priced new and old world wines, which we managed to sip abstemiously for the entire meal.
- You see him sip abstemiously, after using the small reading glasses he keeps in his pocket to read the label.
- The Cardinal lived abstemiously in a top-floor apartment, worked on his memoirs and a history of the Roman Catholic Church in Hungary.
- They subsist abstemiously upon wild herbs and fruits and roots and leaves of diverse kinds.
noun əbˈstiːmɪəsnəsəbˈstimiəsnəs That is not to suggest that I am a model of abstemiousness who has never made an idiot of himself after five too many. Example sentencesExamples - It turns out Fields was a huge admirer of hers, but their approaches to comedy, and life, were poles apart - Fields being a master of excess and West a paragon of abstemiousness.
- He does not seem to smoke or drink, although he has downplayed his abstemiousness since joining the drinks group.
- Jake made up for any parental abstemiousness though.
- We only had four bottles of wine - due to the wine service rather than any abstemiousness on our part.
Synonyms temperance, abstinence, austerity, moderation, plain/simple living, self-discipline, self-denial, renunciation, restraint, self-restraint, self-deprivation, sobriety, asceticism, puritanism, severity, self-abnegation, continence
OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin abstemius, (from ab- 'from' + a word related to temetum 'alcoholic drink') + -ous. Definition of abstemious in US English: abstemiousadjectiveəbˈstēmēəsəbˈstimiəs Not self-indulgent, especially when eating and drinking. (尤指吃和喝)有节制的 “We only had a bottle.” “Very abstemious of you.” “我们只喝了一瓶。”“你们真有节制啊。” Example sentencesExamples - A close family member confirmed that she lived a fairly simple and abstemious life, and spent some years in a nursing home before her death in May 1998.
- There is a trend for alcohol limits to become tighter - a trend more related to the increasing sobriety of the wider political climate than to the emergence of epidemiological evidence justifying a more abstemious policy.
- I would follow the same abstemious regime, but unlike him I don't have an accommodating housekeeper.
- Taylor portrays Hitler as a sour, arrogant, abstemious spoilsport and friend to small animals.
- There is no evidence, however, that a single drinking bout in an otherwise abstemious person will lead to pancreatitis.
- Left to my own devices, I am an abstemious person, as innocent as a baby and jaw-droppingly naive.
- I considered a 48 hour fast, however decided that any gain that would be attained from this abstemious behaviour would be completely off-set by the onslaught of DT's that this effort would inevitably induce.
- The bill for our relatively abstemious meal worked out, with a tip, at nearly 40 leva a head.
- Judged alongside their abstemious Anglo-Saxon counterparts, they were seen as unruly, belligerent and not to be relied on, a slur that was extended to generations through media distortion and police discrimination.
- He took seriously his pledge made at the outset of the war that he would live a frugal and abstemious existence as long as the war lasted.
- Josiah Harlan was a pacifist, abstemious Pennsylvania Quaker stricken with a profound case of wanderlust.
- On the other hand, I have hardly seen any pals because they are down the pub, so my main support now is Phil, an abstemious, gay, Welsh dancer who seems quite pleased that I share one of his lifestyle choices.
- There's still the same warm smile and shock of black hair, and there's clearly something to be said for her abstemious lifestyle for she looks a decade younger than it says on her birth certificate.
- However, it was the abstemious Chartist family, the Cranstons, who really put the coffee houses' adversaries, the Glasgow tea rooms, on the map in the 1890s.
- In personality they were frugal, abstemious, shrewd, accumulative, and solitary.
- When he sits down to celebrate his 40th birthday next Wednesday, this most abstemious of professionals can raise a glass to himself and genuinely declare he could not have done any more or any better.
- New England in the 19th century was the apex of conformity: staid, stuffy and abstemious.
- Robinson, famed for his Christian beliefs and his abstemious lifestyle, also found time to have lunch with his mother, who still lives in Leeds.
- Both were abstemious by nature, but knew how to enjoy themselves and were interesting company.
- Dalton was said to be abstemious but did indulge in a game of bowls on a Thursday.
Synonyms temperate, abstinent, austere, moderate, self-disciplined, self-denying, restrained, self-restrained, non-indulgent, sober, ascetic, puritanical, spartan, strict, severe, self-abnegating, hair-shirt
OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin abstemius, (from ab- ‘from’ + a word related to temetum ‘alcoholic drink’) + -ous. |