Results

Definition of lenten : 1. Lent.
2. Of or pertaining to the fast called Lent; used in, or suitable to, Lent; as, the season.
3. Spare; meager; plain; somber; unostentatious; not abundant or showy.

Synonyms:

Franciscan, parsimonious, abstinent, Spartan, stark, penitential, dry, monastic, teetotaling, ascetic, hermit-like, repentant, stoic, celibate, severe, Trappist, austere, abstemious, miserly

Usage examples:

• Returning to my native hills, I found the Lenten season had fairly set in, which I always dreaded on account of the solemn, tolling bell, the Episcopal church being just opposite our residence. - "Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897", Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
• Near Rouvray a battle was fought, which is known by the singular appellation of the Battle of the Herrings, from the circumstance that, at that Lenten season, a huge convoy of fish was being taken from the coast to Paris. - "Joan of Arc", Ronald Sutherland Gower.
• In the first stormy night, when the Lenten wind drove the shapeless clouds from one end of the sky to the other and shook the leafless trees, and the will- o'- the- wisps darted about among the graves, a lonely horseman approached the churchyard from the plains. - "Pretty Michal", Mór Jókai.