• Austere
• Buddhist monk, e.g.
• Dervish, e.g.
• Far from self-indulgent
• Hair shirt wearer
• Hardly a hedonist
• Hardly decadent
• Hardly self-indulgent
• Hedonist's antithesis
• Hedonist's opposite
• Like a monk's life
• Like some monks
• Liver of a simple life
• Loner
• Mahatma Gandhi, for one
• Monk, perhaps
• No hedonist, he
• One leading a spartan lifestyle
• One who leads a Spartan lifestyle
• Practicing great self-denial
• Recluse
• Religious recluse
• Religious self-denier
• Rigorously abstinent
• Self-denier
• Self-denying
• Self-denying one
• Self-denying sort
• Spartan
• Strictly self-denying
• Practices self denial as spiritual discipline