noun.
Pronunciation: [æb-'ste-mi-ês]
Definition: Temperate in consumption of food and drink; sparse or sparing in general（节俭的）.
Usage: This word answers the question, "Can you name an English word that contains all the vowels in their correct order?" (abstemious, I guess) What about "y"? The adverb is "abstemiously." There are several others such as "aerious," "facetious," and "parecious". The noun is "abstemiousness."
Suggested Usage: First and foremost this word is used in reference to temperance in food and drink, "Kirsten dines abstemiously throughout the week in order to gorge on the weekends." Another near synonym of today's word is "spartan": "Felix's apartment is modern and abstemious in its furnishings." Extending the metaphor, we might get, "Raymond leads a puritanically abstemious life resistant to most earthly pleasures."
abstinent abstinence
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