Abstemious is valid Scrabble Word

Is abstemious a scrabble word?
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10 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for ABSTEMIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

sparing, esp. in matters of eating and drinking
indulging only very moderately in something, especially food and drink
Abstaining from wine.
Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.
Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an abstemious diet.
Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life.
Promotive of abstemiousness.
sparing in consumption of especially food and drink
marked by temperance in indulgence
sparing

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

marked by restraint especially in the consumption of food or alcohol; reflecting such restraint

Words related to ABSTEMIOUS

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Words that contain ABSTEMIOUS

abstemiously19 abstemiousness18 abstemiousnesse19 abstemiousnesses20

How to use ABSTEMIOUS in a sentence

In regard to the pleasures of the table he was temperate, almost abstemious.
Byron was, during the passage, in delicate health, and upon an abstemious regimen.
He is, unlike most Persians of high class, abstemious as regards both food and drink.
When on a hunting-excursion, his favourite occupation, the Shah is even more abstemious, going sometimes a whole day without food of any kind.
These people are a mild, harmless race, of civil manners and abstemious habits.
The Belgians are an abstemious race, and they took it beautifully.
In diet, Percival was the most abstemious person I ever knew.
He was sober and abstemious in his food, and simple to an extreme in his garments.
In the matter of eating and drinking Washington was abstemious.
But over the way, about half-way down the table, the Ichwan Suliman ben Saoud, dead-cold-sober and abstemious, as befitted a fanatic, was talking, too.

A very abstemious friend of mine, not long since, dined tete-a-tete with a gentleman well known for his kindness and hospitality, and not less so for his powers of bibulation.
The sisterhood, abstemious nearly all the days of the year, feasted on certain high holidays.
He renounced his pension, and sitting at the abstemious table with the monks, declined seeing any other company than that of the world-renouncing priests and friars around him.
In his attentions to the splendid repast before him he was most abstemious, but he finished by smoking a cigar.
He is temperate and sober, being equally abstemious in meat and drink.
Though compactly built, he was generally spare and wasted from incessant studies, hard labor, and an abstemious life.
But what can you expect on the China Coast? He was rather an upright sort of young man, delicate and abstemious, and the East being new to him, shocked him.
He was extremely abstemious, and entirely indifferent to wealth and poverty.
The king ate and drank but little, for, unlike his two brothers and predecessors, he is said to be abstemious.
Blood will tell, and theirs, in spite of everything, was abstemious Italian blood.
That claret, taken so casually from tin cups near the summit of the Cascades, had been a part of the store of that great dreamer and most abstemious of men, James J.
A more abstemious woman, my lords, I believe does not live.
He cared as little for good quarters as a mountain hunter, and he was as abstemious as a Red Indian on the war-path.
Champneys was an abstemious man, but the girl was frankly greedy with the naive greed of one who had been heretofore stinted.
His ill-health obliged him to be abstemious, and he had no expensive tastes.
The man who does more than any one else to supply the demand for houses is the patient, abstemious, and laborious heir of the Astor estate.
Careless in general as regards his food, abstemious to a degree in this respect, he was particular only on one matter, his coffee.
But it must be owned, that Johnson, though he could be rigidly ABSTEMIOUS, was not a TEMPERATE man either in eating or drinking.
I observed at breakfast that although it was a part of his abstemious discipline on this most solemn fast, to take no milk in his tea, yet when Mrs.
He was so abstemious in his habits that those about the office wondered how he lived.

Similar words containing ABSTEMIOU without suffix s

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