What is the meaning of ascetic?
1 : practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline an ascetic monk an ascetic diet. 2 : austere in appearance, manner, or attitude.
How do you pronounce Asetic?
What is synonyms of ascetic?
1’an ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and manual labour’ SYNONYMS. austere, self-denying, abstinent, abstemious, non-indulgent, self-disciplined, frugal, simple, rigorous, strict, severe, hair-shirt, spartan, monastic, monkish, monklike, nunlike. reclusive, solitary, cloistered, eremitic, anchoritic, hermitic.
Is the T silent in exactly?
When we have the word ‘exact’, we will make a True T because it’s part of an ending consonant cluster. But when we add the -ly ending, it now comes between two consonants. You’ll hear a lot of native speakers say ‘exactly‘, with no T sound.