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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Monastic \Mo*nas"tic\, noun A monk.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Monastic \Mo*nas"tic\, Monastical \Mo*nas"tic*al\, adjective [Gr. ? monk: cf. F. monastique. See {Monastery}.]
1. Of or pertaining to monasteries, or to their occupants, rules, etc., as, monastic institutions or rules.
2. Secluded from temporal concerns and devoted to religion; recluse. ''A life monastic.'' --Denham.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
monastic
adjective: of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows [syn: {cloistered}, {cloistral}, {conventual}, {monastical}]
noun: a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work [syn: {monk}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "monastic": abbacomes, abbot, ascetic, beadsman, brother, caloyer, celibataire, celibate, cenobite, claustral, cloistered, conventical, conventual, conventual prior, friar, grand prior, hermit, hieromonach, lay abbot, lay brother, mendicant, misogamic, misogamist, misogynist, misogynous, monachal, monasterial, monk, monkish, nun, palmer, pilgrim, pillar saint, pillarist, priest, prior, religieux, religious, single, stylite, unmarried
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