| ADJECTIVE | all | nonindulgent, strict | characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint |
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| Meaning | Characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint. | |
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| Synonym | strict | |
| Narrower | austere, stern | Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor |
| blue, puritanic, puritanical | morally rigorous and strict | |
| corrective, disciplinary, disciplinal | designed to promote discipline | |
| monkish | befitting a monk | |
| renunciant, renunciative, self-abnegating, self-denying | Used especially of behavior | |
| self-disciplined, self-restraining | Used of nonindulgent persons | |
| severe, spartan | unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment | |
| See also | abstemious | sparing in consumption of especially food and drink |
| Opposite | indulgent | Characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone |
| Nouns | nonindulgence | the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) |
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