Word Meanings - CONVENTUAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a convent; monastic. "A conventual garb." Macaulay. Conventual church, a church attached or belonging to a convent or monastery. Wordsworth.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONVENTUAL)

• Monastic
• Conventual
• cenobitical
• regular
• monkish
• Recluse
• Shut
• sequestered
• retired
• apart
• solitary
• conventual
• dissocial

Related words: (words related to CONVENTUAL)

• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• MONKISH
  Like a monk, or pertaining to monks; monastic; as, monkish manners; monkish dress; monkish solitude. -- Monk"ish*ness, n.
• REGULARIA
  A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.
• APARTMENT HOUSE
  A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.
• APARTNESS
  The quality of standing apart.
• RETIRER
  One who retires.
• RETIREMENT
  1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline. Goldsmith. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson. 2. A place of seclusion
• DISSOCIAL
  Unfriendly to society; contracted; selfish; as, dissocial feelings.
• RETIRED
  1. Private; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits. A retired part of the peninsula. Hawthorne. 2. Withdrawn from active duty or business; as, a retired officer; a retired physician. Retired flank , a flank bent inward
• MONASTICALLY
  In a monastic manner.
• RETIRING
  1. Reserved; shy; not forward or obtrusive; as, retiring modesty; retiring manners. 2. Of or pertaining to retirement; causing retirement; suited to, or belonging to, retirement. Retiring board , a board of officers who consider and report upon
• APARTMENT
  appartare to separate, set apart; all fr. L. ad + pars, partis, part. 1. A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Fielding. 2. A set or suite of rooms. De Quincey. 3. A compartment. Pope.
• RETIRE
  1. To go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep aloof; to withdraw or retreat, as from observation; to go into privacy; as, to retire to his home; to retire from the world, or from notice. To Una back he cast him to retire. Spenser. The
• MONASTICISM
  The monastic life, system, or condition. Milman.
• MONASTICON
  A book giving an account of monasteries.
• MONASTIC
  A monk.
• RECLUSE
  1. A person who lives in seclusion from intercourse with the world, as a hermit or monk; specifically, one of a class of secluded devotees who live in single cells; usually attached to monasteries. 2. The place where a recluse dwells. Foxe.
• REGULAR
  Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin. (more info) 1. Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law, principle, or type, or to established customary forms; normal;
• CONVENTUAL
  Of or pertaining to a convent; monastic. "A conventual garb." Macaulay. Conventual church, a church attached or belonging to a convent or monastery. Wordsworth.
• DISSOCIALIZE
  To render unsocial.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• SEQUESTER
  To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand
• BONAPARTISM
  The policy of Bonaparte or of the Bonapartes.