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continent
continent
adjective
Definition of CONTINENT
given to or marked by restraint in the satisfaction of one's appetites <a religous sect that expects its unmarried members to be completely celibate and its married adherents to maintain continent relationships>
Related Words ascetic (also ascetical), austere; disciplined, self-controlled, self-disciplined, self-governed
Near Antonyms gluttonous, greedy, rapacious, voracious; Cyrenaic, hedonistic, self-pleasing, sensual, sybaritic, voluptuous, voluptuary; masturbatory, onanistic
Antonyms self-indulgent
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