Usually means: Pertaining to monks, secluded, disciplined.
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  1. monastic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. monastic: Merriam-Webster
  3. monastic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. monastic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. monastic: Collins English Dictionary
  6. monastic: Vocabulary.com
  7. Monastic, monastic: Wordnik
  8. monastic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. monastic: Wiktionary
  10. monastic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. monastic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. monastic: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Monastic, monastic: Dictionary.com
  14. monastic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. monastic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Monastic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Monastic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. monastic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. monastic: Rhymezone
  20. monastic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. monastic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. monastic: FreeDictionary.org
  23. monastic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. monastic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. monastic: Encyclopedia

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Of or relating to monasteries or monks.
▸ noun:  A person with monastic ways; a monk.

Similar:
conventual, monk, cloistral, cloistered, monastical, unworldly, monachal, monasterial, monkish, moneric, more...

Opposite:
worldly, secular, non-monastic

Types:
Benedictine, Cistercian, Trappist, Carthusian, Dominican, Franciscan, more...

Phrases:
monastic orders, monastic order, monastic community, monastic habit, Monastic community of Mount Athos, more...

Adjectives:
gloomy, old, less, early, buddhist, new, irish, more, female, orthodox, non

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Similar:
conventual, monk, cloistral, cloistered, monastical, unworldly, monachal, monasterial, monkish, moneric, more...

Opposite:
worldly, secular, non-monastic

Types:
Benedictine, Cistercian, Trappist, Carthusian, Dominican, Franciscan, more...

Phrases:
monastic orders, monastic order, monastic community, monastic habit, Monastic community of Mount Athos, Monastic cell, Monastic sign languages, A Monastic Trio, Monastic silence, monastic communities, more...

Adjectives:
gloomy, old, less, early, buddhist, new, irish, more, female, orthodox, non

Colors:
    brown,     beige,     gray,     white,     black, more...



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