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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