A word a day #58
Abstemious
- Adjective
- Pronunciation (Hindi): अब-स्टी-मि-अस
- Pronunciation (English): uhb-stee-mi-us
- Meaning: Temperate, restrained in relation to food, drink or other pleasures.
- Example: 1. Abstemious in his habits, he possessed great physical endurance.
2. Ram was a man of abstemious habits.
3. They are industrious and abstemious in their lives.
4. The latter are peaceable, inoffensive and abstemious.
Synonyms: Temperate, abstinent, austere, moderate, self-denying, restrained.
Antonyms: self-indulgent, intemperate
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