Abstemious vs Starving - What's the difference?
abstemious | starving |
Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.
* Instances of longevity are chiefly among the abstemious - .
* Under his special eye Abstemious I grew up and thrived amain. -
* 1919 ,
Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation.
* an abstemious diet -
Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life.
* One abstemious day. -
* 1826 , , Chapter 5
(rare) Promotive of abstemiousness.
* Such is the virtue of the abstemious well. -
* (English Citations of "abstemious")
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As an adjective abstemious
is sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions .As a verb starving is
.As a noun starving is
starvation.abstemious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- In the dimness of the landing I could not see him very well, but there was something in his voice that surprised me. I knew he was of abstemious habit or I should have thought he had been drinking.
- [...] when I, abstemious naturally, and rendered so by the fever that preyed on me, was forced to recruit myself with food.
Synonyms
abstentious, abstinent, continent, self-abnegating, self-denying, sober, temperateDerived terms
* abstemiousness * unabstemiousstarving
English
Verb
(head)Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}