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antimonastic

antimonastic adjective: opposing monks or monasteries.

Adjective

antimonastic (comparative more antimonastic, superlative most antimonastic)

  1. Opposing monks or monasteries.
    • an antimonastic satire

Forms of antimonastic

comparativemore antimonastic
superlativemost antimonastic

Origin of antimonastic

From anti- + monastic.

Questions about antimonastic

What does antimonastic mean?
Antimonastic means opposing monks or monasteries.
What part of speech is antimonastic?
Antimonastic is an adjective.

Words near antimonastic in the dictionary

  1. antimonarchicalness
  2. antimonarchism
  3. antimonarchist
  4. antimonarchists
  5. antimonarchy
  6. antimonastic
  7. antimonate
  8. antimonates
  9. antimonatian
  10. antimonene
  11. antimoney

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