Usually means: Resembling or characteristic of monks.
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  1. monkish: Merriam-Webster
  2. monkish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. monkish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. monkish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. monkish: Vocabulary.com
  6. Monkish, monkish: Wordnik
  7. monkish: Wiktionary
  8. monkish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. monkish: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Monkish, monkish: Dictionary.com
  11. Monkish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. monkish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. monkish: Rhymezone
  14. Monkish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. monkish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. monkish: FreeDictionary.org
  17. monkish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. monkish: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. monkish: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. monkish: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. monkish: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (monkish)

▸ adjective:  Pertaining to, or resembling, a monk or monasticism.
▸ adjective:  Tending to self-denial; ascetic.

Similar:
nonindulgent, monastic, monachal, monastical, monasterial, monadistic, moneric, monarchical, monistical, conventual, more...

Opposite:
worldly, secular, non-monastic

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Similar:
nonindulgent, monastic, monachal, monastical, monasterial, monadistic, moneric, monarchical, monistical, conventual, more...

Opposite:
worldly, secular, non-monastic



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