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as·cet·ic  audio  (-stk) KEY 

NOUN:
A person who renounces material comforts and leads a life of austere self-discipline, especially as an act of religious devotion.
ADJECTIVE:
  1. Leading a life of self-discipline and self-denial, especially for spiritual improvement. See Synonyms at severe.
  2. Pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic; self-denying and austere: an ascetic existence.
ETYMOLOGY:
Late Greek asktikos, from Greek askts, practitioner, hermit, monk, from askein, to work

OTHER FORMS:
as·ceti·cal·ly(Adverb)


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