| Lenten 1. (n.) Lent. 2. (n.) of or pertaining to the fast called Lent; used in, or suitable to, Lent; as, the Lenten season. 3. (n.) Spare; meager; plain; somber; unostentatious; not abundant or showy. Thesaurus Entries Apostolic, Encratic, Pythagorean, Rechabite, Shaker, Spartan, Stoic, abstemious, abstinent, ascetic, austere, celibate, chaste, continent, dwarfed, dwarfish, exiguous, fasting, frugal, fruitarian, impoverished, jejune, lean, limited, meager, mean, miserly, narrow, nephalistic, niggardly, on the wagon, paltry, parsimonious, poor, puny, quadragesimal, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, sexually abstinent, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, spare, sparing, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, sworn off, teetotal, thin, uneating, unfed, unnourishing, unnutritious, vegetarian, watered, watery |