lijkt op: austere, stern | blue, puritanic, puritanical | corrective, disciplinal, disciplinary | monkish | renunciant, renunciative, self-abnegating, self-denying | self-disciplined, self-restraining | severe, spartan.

zie ook: abstemious.

is het tegengestelde van: indulgent.

afleiding: sternness, strictness | asceticism, austerity, nonindulgence.