Word Meanings - SELF-DENYING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Refusing to gratify one's self; self-sacrificing. -- Self`-de*ny"ing*ly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SELF-DENYING)

• Abstemious
• Abstinent
• moderate
• self-denying
• sober
• temperate
• sparing
• frugal
• Temperate
• abstemious
• continent
• austere

Related words: (words related to SELF-DENYING)

• SPAR-HUNG
  Hung with spar, as a cave.
• SPARPOIL
  To scatter; to spread; to disperse.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
  The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British
• FRUGALNESS
  , n. Quality of being frugal; frugality.
• FRUGALLY
  Thriftily; prudently.
• SPARSELY
  In a scattered or sparse manner.
• CONTINENTAL GLACIER
  A broad ice sheet resting on a plain or plateau and spreading outward from a central névé, or region of accumulation.
• SPARKER
  A spark arrester.
• SPARROWWORT
  An evergreen shrub of the genus Erica .
• SPARKLER
  One who scatters; esp., one who scatters money; an improvident person.
• SPARKLING
  Emitting sparks; glittering; flashing; brilliant; lively; as, sparkling wine; sparkling eyes. -- Spar"kling*ly, adv. -- Spar"kling*ness, n. Syn. -- Brilliant; shining. See Shining.
• SPARK
  cf. Icel. spraka to crackle, Lith. spragëti, Gr. sph to crackle, to 1. A small particle of fire or ignited substance which is emitted by a body in combustion. Man is born unto trouble, as hte sparks fly upward. Job v. 7. 2. A small, shining body,
• SPARADRAP
  Any adhesive plaster. (more info) 1. A cerecloth.
• SPARE
  1. To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save. "No cost would he spare." Chaucer. thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare. Milton. He that hath knowledge, spareth his words. Prov.
• SOBERIZE
  To sober. Crabbe.
• SPARK GAP
  The space filled with air or other dielectric between high potential terminals (as of an electrostatic machine, induction coil, or condenser), through which the discharge passes; the air gap of a jump spark.
• CONTINENTAL DRIVE
  A transmission arrangement in which the longitudinal crank shaft drives the rear wheels through a clutch, change-speed gear, countershaft, and two parallel side chains, in order.
• MODERATE
  Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained; as: Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table. Limited in degree
• SPARADA
  A small California surf fish ; -- called also shiner.
• DESPARPLE
  To scatter; to disparkle. Mandeville.
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• FLUOR SPAR
  See FLUORITE
• INCONTINENT
  Unable to restrain natural evacuations. (more info) 1. Not continent; uncontrolled; not restraining the passions or appetites, particularly the sexual appetite; indulging unlawful lust; unchaste; lewd.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• OUTSPARKLE
  To exceed in sparkling.
• DISPARK
  1. To throw ; to treat as a common. The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked. Jer. Taylor. 2. To set at large; to release from inclosure. Till his free muse threw down the pale, And did at once dispark
• SHIVER-SPAR
  A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
• DISPARAGEMENT
  1. Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser. 2. Injurious comparison with an inferior; a
• DISPARATES
  Things so unequal or unlike that they can not be compared with each other.
• ESPARTO
  A species of Spanish grass , of which cordage, shoes, baskets, etc., are made. It is also used for making paper.
• UNTEMPERATE
  Intemperate.
• ASPARAGUS
  A genus of perennial plants belonging to the natural order Liliaceæ, and having erect much branched stems, and very slender branchlets which are sometimes mistaken for leaves. Asparagus racemosus is a shrubby climbing plant with fragrant flowers.