Definitions of nonindulgent
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characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint
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synonyms:
strict
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abstemious
sparing in consumption of especially food and drink
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austere, stern
of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect
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blue, puritanic, puritanical
morally rigorous and strict
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corrective, disciplinal, disciplinary
designed to promote discipline
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monkish
befitting a monk; inclined to self-denial
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renunciant, renunciative, self-abnegating, self-denying
used especially of behavior
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self-disciplined, self-restraining
used of nonindulgent persons
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severe, spartan
unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment
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Antonyms:
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indulgent
characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone
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gluttonous
given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink
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decadent, effete
marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay
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betting, card-playing, dissipated, sporting
preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance
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epicurean, luxuriant, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous
displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses
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gay
given to social pleasures often including dissipation
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epicurean, hedonic, hedonistic
devoted to pleasure
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hard, heavy, intemperate
given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
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overindulgent
excessively indulgent
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pampering
gratifying tastes, appetites, or desires
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decadent, self-indulgent
indulgent of your own appetites and desires
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abstemious
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