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

see also: abstemious.

is the opposite of: indulgent.

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