monastic
/məˈnæstɪk/
monastic adjective: of or relating to monasteries or monks.
Adjective
monastic (comparative more monastic, superlative most monastic)
- Of or relating to monasteries or monks.
- new monastic people
- “Fear not that, Edward,” exclaimed Halbert, who never gave his brother his monastic name of Ambrosius; “none obey the command of real duty so well as those who are free from the observance of slavish bondage.”1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and...
Noun
monastic (plural monastics)
- A person with monastic ways; a monk.
monastic meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
monastic in Tamil
- துறவிகளுக்குரிய, துறவிமடங்கள் சார்ந்த
monastic in Urdu
- راہبانہ
monastic in Bengali
- মঠসংক্রান্ত, সন্ন্যাসীসুলভ, নিরাভরণ
monastic in Malayalam
- cloistered, cloistral, claustral
- ഏകാന്തജീവിതം നയിക്കുന്ന, ആശ്രമജീവിതം നയിക്കുന്ന, ഏകാന്തജീവിതം അനുഷ്ഠിക്കുന്ന, ആശ്രമസംബന്ധമായ, വെെഖാനസ, സന്ന്യാസത്തെ സംബന്ധിച്ച
- ascetic, austere, simple
- തീവ്രവിരക്തിയോടുകൂടിയ, അനാർഭാടം, അസക്ത, താപസ, ലളിതമായ, ഒറ്റയ്ക്കു താമസിക്കുന്ന
More languagesFewer languages
- monastic in Kannada
- ಮಠ ಸಂಬಂಧಿ, ಸಂನ್ಯಾಸ ಸಂಬಂಧಿ
Examples of monastic in a sentence
- He gave himself over to a monastic life.
- Normanisation also affected the Scottish Church, leading to new monastic foundations and stronger continental links.
- Monastic liturgical singing is known as fanbei, which may be loosely translated as ‘Indian singing’.
Forms of monastic
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more monastic |
| superlative | most monastic |
| alternative form | monastick |
| Noun | |
| plural | monastics |
Origin of monastic
From Middle French monastique, from Late Latin monasticus.
Words formed from monastic
- antimonastic
- monastically
- monasticize
- monastic sign language
- nonmonastic
- pseudomonastic
- semimonastic
- unmonastic
Words that rhyme with monastic
- plastic
- elastic
- fantastic
- bombastic
- mastic
- spastic
- heteroplastic
- inelastic
- periphrastic
- pleonastic
- aclastic
- alloplastic
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- anaclastic
- anaplastic
- anticlastic
- aplastic
- autoplastic
- basiplastic
- ceroplastic
- chiastic
- clastic
- cosmoplastic
- drastic
- encomiastic
- enthusiastic
- epispastic
- gelastic
- gymnastic
- heteroblastic
- holophrastic
- homoblastic
- homoplastic
- macroplastic
- normoplastic
- onomastic
- paraphrastic
- sarcastic
- synclastic
- achondroplastic
- agelastic
- antineoplastic
- antiphrastic
- antispastic
- apicoplastic
- autoschediastic
- cataclastic
- chiliastic
- conplastic
- cranioplastic
- docimastic
- dramastic
- dynastic
- dysplastic
- ecclesiastic
- ectoblastic
- ectoplastic
- electroplastic
- emplastic
- epiblastic
- epinastic
Questions about monastic
- What does monastic mean?
- Monastic means of or relating to monasteries or monks.
- What is monastic in Tamil?
- Monastic in Tamil is துறவிகளுக்குரிய, துறவிமடங்கள் சார்ந்த. See Monastic meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is monastic?
- Monastic can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce monastic?
- Monastic is pronounced /məˈnæstɪk/.
Words near monastic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: monastic (page history and authors); monastic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); monastic (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); monastic (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); monastic (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); monastic (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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