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NONINDULGENT

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

• NONINDULGENT (adjective)

Sense 1

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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; puritan; 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)

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