n. 25B6; adjective an ascetic life : AUSTERE, self-denying, abstinent, abstemious, self-disciplined, self-abnegating; simple, puritanical, monastic; reclusive, eremitic, hermitic; celibate, chaste.
sybaritic.
25B6; noun a desert ascetic : ABSTAINER, puritan, recluse, hermit, solitary; fakir, Sufi, dervish, sadhu, muni; historical anchorite; archaic eremite.
sybarite.