noun ನಾಮಪದ

Abstainer meaning in kannada

ತ್ಯಜಿಸುವವನು

  • Pronunciation

    /æbˈsteɪ.nɚ/

  • Definition

    a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages

    ಮಾದಕ ಪಾನೀಯಗಳನ್ನು ಕುಡಿಯುವುದನ್ನು ತಡೆಯುವ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ

  • Synonyms

    abstinent (ಇಂದ್ರಿಯನಿಗ್ರಹ)

noun ನಾಮಪದ

Abstainer meaning in kannada

ತ್ಯಜಿಸುವವನು

  • Definition

    someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline

    ಆಧ್ಯಾತ್ಮಿಕ ಶಿಸ್ತಾಗಿ ಸ್ವಯಂ ನಿರಾಕರಣೆಯನ್ನು ಅಭ್ಯಾಸ ಮಾಡುವ ಯಾರಾದರೂ

  • Synonyms

    ascetic (ತಪಸ್ವಿ)

noun ನಾಮಪದ

Abstainer meaning in kannada

ತ್ಯಜಿಸುವವನು

  • Definitions

    1. Agent noun of abstain; 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.

    Abstain ಆಫ್ ಏಜೆಂಟ್ ನಾಮಪದ; ದೂರವಿರುವವನು; ವಿಶೇಷವಾಗಿ, ಮದ್ಯಪಾನ ಅಥವಾ ಮಾದಕ ದ್ರವ್ಯಗಳ ಬಳಕೆಯಂತಹ ಯಾವುದನ್ನಾದರೂ ತ್ಯಜಿಸುವವನು ಅಥವಾ ಧಾರ್ಮಿಕ ಕಾರಣಗಳಿಗಾಗಿ ತ್ಯಜಿಸುವವನು; ಸ್ವಯಂ ನಿರಾಕರಣೆಯನ್ನು ಅಭ್ಯಾಸ ಮಾಡುವವನು.

  • Examples:
    1. '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.'

    2. 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.

    3. 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.