Word of the Day : January 8, 2023

ascetic \uh-SET-ik\ adjective

What It Means

Ascetic is a formal word used to describe people or things that are markedly simple and restrained in appearance, manner, or attitude. Its original meaning, still in use, is “practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline,” as in “an ascetic monk.”

// On her first visit to Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes, she immediately fell in love with their ascetic, windswept beauty.

// His choice to lead such an ascetic lifestyle was at first in defiance of the conspicuous consumption of modern society, but it had the added benefit of bringing him great inner peace.

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