monastic
/mə'næstik/
Definition
Adjective:
- Relating to monks, nuns, or monastic life: Pertaining to the life, practices, or characteristics of a religious community living apart from the world under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
- Resembling or characteristic of a monastic life: Suggestive of the simplicity, seclusion, discipline, or asceticism associated with monks or monasteries.
Noun:
- A member of a monastic community: A person, typically a monk or a nun, who lives under religious vows in a monastery, convent, or similar community.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The old castle had a stark, monastic simplicity to its architecture.
- He adopted a monastic lifestyle of early mornings, study, and minimal possessions.
- Noun:
- The monastic spent his days in prayer, meditation, and tending the garden.
- She decided to become a monastic and join the secluded convent.
Advanced Usage
- "monastic silence": A profound, rule-enforced quiet typical of a monastery.
- A monastic silence fell over the retreat center after evening prayers.
- "monastic order": A religious community or society living under a specific rule.
- The Benedictines are one of the oldest monastic orders in the Christian tradition.
Variants and Related Words
- Monasticism (n): The monastic system or way of life.
- The history of Christian monasticism spans many centuries.
- Monastically (adv): In a monastic manner.
- He lived monastically, even though he was not a member of a religious order.
Synonyms
- Adjective: Ascetic, cloistered, conventual, hermitic, secluded.
- Noun: Monk, friar, brother, cenobite (for communal monastics), nun (specifically female).
Related Phrases
- "monastic vows": The formal promises (e.g., poverty, chastity, obedience) taken by a monastic.
- He took his final monastic vows after years of preparation.
- "monastic community": A group of people living together under a monastic rule.
- The monastic community was self-sufficient, growing its own food.
Adjective
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of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
Noun
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a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work
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