Synonymer

Uttal

  • RP:
    • IPA: /æbˈstiː.mɪ.əs/
  • US:
    • IPA: /æb.ˈsti.mi.əs/
    • IPA: /əbˈsti.mi.əs/
  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: /æbˈstɛmi.əs/

Ingen översättning hittades i den valda målspråket.

Definitioner

Adjektiv

  1. Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.
  2. Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation.
  3. Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life.
  4. (rare) Promotive of abstemiousness.

Exempel

  • Instances of longevity are chiefly among the abstemious - John Arbuthnot.
  • Under his special eye Abstemious I grew up and thrived amain. - John Milton
  • In the dimness of the landing I could not see him very well, but there was something in his voice that surprised me. I knew he was of abstemious habit or I should have thought he had been drinking.
  • an abstemious diet - Edward Gibbon
  • One abstemious day. - Alexander Pope
  • [...] when I, abstemious naturally, and rendered so by the fever that preyed on me, was forced to recruit myself with food.
  • Such is the virtue of the abstemious well. - John Dryden

Böjningsformer

Komparativmore abstemious
Superlativmost abstemious

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