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NONINDULGENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does nonindulgent mean?
• NONINDULGENT (adjective)
The adjective NONINDULGENT has 1 sense:
1. characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint
Familiarity information: NONINDULGENT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint
Synonyms:
nonindulgent; strict
Similar:
austere; stern (of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect)
blue; puritanic; puritanical (morally rigorous and strict)
corrective; disciplinal; disciplinary (designed to promote discipline)
monkish (befitting a monk; inclined to self-denial)
renunciant; renunciative; self-abnegating; self-denying (used especially of behavior)
self-disciplined; self-restraining (used of nonindulgent persons)
severe; spartan (unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment)
Also:
abstemious (sparing in consumption of especially food and drink)
Antonym:
indulgent (characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone)
Derivation:
nonindulgence (the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures))
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