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>

Synonyms abstentious, abstinent, continent, self-abnegating, self-denying, sober, temperate

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