abstainer

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
13
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/æbˈsteɪ.nɚ/ (US)

Definition of abstainer

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. One who abstains; especially, one who abstains from something, such as the use of alcohol or drugs, or one who abstains for religious reasons; one who practices self-denial.
    “To one of my very nervous patients, who was an abstainer, whose fancy was fixed on his mother, and who repeatedly dreamed of climbing stairs accompanied by his mother, I once remarked that moderate masturbation would be less harmful to him than enforced abstinence.”
    “He was a total abstainer and a nonsmoker, had no recreations except a daily hour in the gymnasium, and had taken a vow of celibacy, believing marriage and the care of a family to be incompatible with a twenty-four-hour-a-day devotion to duty.”
    “'Never himself touches a drop of the stuff, you understand. Having been an abstainer since the age of seven or something. A clerky figure even as a child.'”

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Etymology

From Middle English absteyner, equivalent to abstain + -er.

Anagrams of abstainer

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