monastic
noun
1 monastic
A male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work.
synonym: monk.
Dutch: broeder, cenobiet, convers, frater, kloosterbroeder, kloosterling, lekenbroeder, monnik, ordebroeder
Polish: mnich
adjective
1 monastic
Of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows.
synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastical.
Roget 995: ecclesiastical, ecclesiological†; clerical, sacerdotal, priestly, prelatical, pastoral, ministerial, capitular†, theocratic; hierarchical, archiepiscopal; episcopal, ... show more
Roget 1000: claustral, cloistered; monastic, monasterial; conventual.
Moby thesaurus: abbacomes, abbot, ascetic, beadsman, brother, caloyer, celibataire, celibate, cenobite, claustral, cloistered, conventical, conventual, conventual prior, friar, grand prior, hermit, hieromonach, lay abbot, lay brother ... show more.
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