abstemious

Senso (Inglese)

1. Refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink; sparing in diet; abstinent, temperate.
2. Sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.
3. Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation.
4. Marked by, or spent in, abstinence.
5. (rare) Promotive of abstemiousness.

Concetti

astinente

astemio

moderato

sobrio

frugale

temperante

Opposto di

extravagant, squandering, frugal, stingy

sinonimi

temperate

abstinent

moderate

light

abstentious

sober

passable

reasonable

self-contained

self-restrained

sparing

staid

teetotaller

thrifty

tolerable

self-controlled

eating little

pi ous

self-restraining

ascetic

buttoned-up

devout

economical

modest

Traduzioni

abstemio

sober

enthaltsam

matig

abstemi

sobre

tempérant

sobrio

nuchter

mäßig

frugal

bezadigd

abstinent

abstinent

stemmig

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/æbˈstiː.mɪ.əs/

Etimologia (Inglese)

From Latin abstēmius (“abstaining from wine”); from ab, abs (“from”) + tēmus, a root of tēmētum (“intoxicating drink, especially strong mead or wine”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *temH- (“dark (referring to the colour of wine)”)) + -ous.