monastic

• monastick

From Middle French monastique, from Late Latin monasticus.

• IPA^(key): /məˈnæstɪk/

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• Rhymes: -æstɪk

monastic (comparative more monastic, superlative most monastic)

1. Of or relating to monasteries or monks.

   new monastic people

   • 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 John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 344:

     “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.”

• semimonastic

• monastery
• monasticism
• monk

monastic (plural monastics)

1. A person with monastic ways; a monk.

monastic

1. monastic

Borrowed from French monastique.

monastic m or n (feminine singular monastică, masculine plural monastici, feminine and neuter plural monastice)

1. monastic

• “monastic”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025