Definition of ascetics

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• ascetics is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 12
• ascetics is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 12
• ascetics is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 14

Definition of ascetics

• pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline (adjective)

  Examples

  1. ascetic practices

  Synonyms

  1. ascetical
• practicing great self-denial (adjective)

  Examples

  1. Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it

  Synonyms

  1. ascetical
  2. austere
  3. spartan
• someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. abstainer

See definition of ascetics in Merriam Webster