Monastic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a monastery. Used often of monks and nuns.
  • adj. Resembling life in a monastery in style, structure, or manner, especially:
  • adj. Secluded and contemplative.
  • adj. Strictly disciplined or regimented.
  • adj. Self-abnegating; austere.
  • n. A monk.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of or relating to monasteries or monks.
  • n. A person with monastic ways, e.g. monks.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A monk.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to monasteries, or to their occupants, rules, etc., .
  • adj. Secluded from temporal concerns and devoted to religion; recluse.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or characteristic of monks or nuns; ascetic: as, monastic life, vows, or practices.
  • Adapted to or suitable for monks or nuns; of ascetic character or use: as, monastic buildings or architecture; monastic seclusion.
  • An epithet noting a style of book-decoration in which medieval forms of compact ornament are strongly stamped on the sides or back of the book without any use of gold-leaf.
  • an abbot who was also a bishop; or
  • a monk consecrated bishop, resident in a monastery, and exercising his office in confirmations, ordinations, etc., but without jurisdiction.
  • n. A monk; a religious recluse.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work
  • adj. of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
  • Equivalent
    unworldly    monastical   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    monk    recluse    conventual    monachal    monkish   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    anaplastic    bombastic    desmoplastic    drastic    dynastic   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ecclesiastical    buddhist    medieval    clerical    feudal