pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline; "ascetic practices" पर्याय: ascetic,
practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad''s austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence" पर्याय: ascetic, austere, spartan,