MEANING
1. Relating to monks, nuns, or their religious communities.
2. Suggesting the spare, disciplined, or secluded life associated with monks or nuns.
3. A monk, nun, or other member of a monastic religious community.
Use it for
Religious institutions, spare rooms, self-imposed discipline.Distinguish institutional religious life from merely empty or neglected space.
Words that belong together
- monastic order
- monastic cell
- monastic simplicity
On the page
The estate incorporated a former monastic dormitory.
He furnished the room with monastic simplicity.
Visitors had to follow the community's monastic timetable.
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- Base
- monastic
Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Literal religious sense differs from figurative descriptions of simple living; does not mean joyless by definition. Non-gradable literally; more monastic and most monastic figuratively.
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