pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline
<adj.pert> ascetic practices
practicing great self-denial
<adj.all> Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it a desert nomad's austere life a spartan diet a spartan existence
ascetical \ascetical\ adj. 1. pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic ascetical practices
Syn: ascetic [WordNet 1.5]
2. practicing great self-denial.
Syn: ascetic, austere, spartan [WordNet 1.5]
Be systematically ascetic . . . do . . . something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it. --William James.