monastic (redirected from monastics)

mo·nas·tic  (m-nstk) also mo·nas·ti·cal (-t-kl)

adj.

1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a monastery. Used often of monks and nuns.

2. Resembling life in a monastery in style, structure, or manner, especially:

a. Secluded and contemplative.

b. Strictly disciplined or regimented.

c. Self-abnegating; austere.

n.

A monk.

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[Middle English monastik, from Old French monastique, from Late Latin monasticus, from Late Greek monastikos, from Greek monazein, to live alone; see monastery.]

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mo·nasti·cal·ly adv.

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monastic

Adjective

1. of or relating to monasteries, monks, or nuns

2. (of a way of life) simple and austere; ascetic

monasticism n

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	monastic - a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work monk Brother - (Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a monk and used as form of address; "a Benedictine Brother" Carthusian - a member of the Carthusian order religious - a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience Cistercian, Trappist - member of an order of monks noted for austerity and a vow of silence
Adj.	1.	monastic - of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastical unworldly - not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations; "was unworldly and did not greatly miss worldly rewards"- Sheldon Cheney

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monastic

adjective monkish, secluded, cloistered, reclusive, withdrawn, austere, celibate, contemplative, ascetic, sequestered, hermit-like, conventual, cenobitic, coenobitic, cloistral, eremitic, monachal

Translations

monastic [məˈnæstɪk] adj → monástico

monastic [məˈnæstɪk] adj → monastique

monastic [məˈnæstɪk] monastery adj → Kloster-, klösterlich (fig); mönchisch, klösterlich einfach

monastic [məˈnæstɪk] adj → monastico/a