Definition for Monastic:

• Pertaining to monks or nuns; recluse.

Synonyms for Monastic:

• adj.

  •ascetic (adjective)
  • dry,
  • austere,
  • stark,
  • franciscan,
  • repentant,
  • ascetic,
  • parsimonious,
  • stoic,
  • celibate,
  • abstinent,
  • abstemious,
  • spartan,
  • penitential,
  • teetotaling,
  • lenten,
  • trappist,
  • severe,
  • miserly.
  •celibate (adjective)
  • alone,
  • solitary,
  • intact,
  • unplowed,
  • bachelor,
  • virginal,
  • pure,
  • single,
  • asexual,
  • unmarried,
  • spinsterish,
  • old maid,
  • unwed,
  • maiden,
  • virgin,
  • lone.
  •clerical (adjective)
  • more ecclesiastic,
  • most parsonish,
  • most cleric,
  • most rabbinical,
  • most apostolic,
  • more apostolic,
  • most monkish,
  • most episcopal,
  • more rabbinical,
  • more cleric,
  • more theocratical,
  • more monkish,
  • more parsonical,
  • more prelatic,
  • more episcopal,
  • more parsonish,
  • most ecclesiastic,
  • priestliest,
  • most theocratical,
  • most prelatic,
  • most parsonical,
  • priestlier.
  •recluse/reclusive (adjective)
  • more secluse,
  • more eremetic,
  • re-served,
  • more seclusive,
  • most sequestered,
  • mis-anthropic,
  • most secluse,
  • re-tiring,
  • more reclusive,
  • mis anthropic,
  • anti social,
  • re tiring,
  • most seclusive,
  • with drawn,
  • more sequestered,
  • with-drawn,
  • re served,
  • most eremetic.
  •reclusive (adjective)
  • more hermit like,
  • more hermit-like,
  • hermit like,
  • most hermitlike,
  • most hermit-like,
  • most hermit like,
  • more hermitlike,
  • more eremitic,
  • most eremitic.
  •with communal life (adjective)
  • secluded,
  • contemplative,
  • oblate.

• n.

  •
  • living,
  • fast,
  • new age,
  • inactive,
  • enclosed.
  •
  • christian,
  • interdenominational,
  • ecclesiastical,
  • born-again,
  • church,
  • charismatic,
  • lay,
  • baptist,
  • ecumenical,
  • evangelical.
  •cloistered (noun)
  • cloistered.
  •cloistral (noun)
  • cloistral.
  •conventual (noun)
  • conventual.
  •person (noun)
  • monastic.
  •unworldly (noun)
  • unworldly.

• v.

  •humble (verb)
  • devout,
  • pious.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • gracious,
  • outdoorsy,
  • back-to-nature,
  • societal,
  • rootless,
  • nomadic,
  • sedentary,
  • bohemian.
  •
  • socially,
  • suburban.
  •
  • private,
  • settled.
  •
  • social.

Antonyms for Monastic:

• adj.

  • with communal life
    sociable.

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    worldly, secular, temporal.

Monastic Sentence Examples:

• My brother tried to dissuade me from the monastic life.

• They saw a twelfth - century church which had gone through some changes and additions, and they also saw some considerable monastic buildings, of part of which, a vault with what seems to be a rather classical column, De Caumont gives a drawing.

Homophones for Monastic:

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Hypernym for Monastic:

• n.

  • person
    cistercian, Carthusian, trappist, brother.

Hyponym for Monastic:

• n.

  • person
    religious.