Word Meanings - MONKISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a monk, or pertaining to monks; monastic; as, monkish manners; monkish dress; monkish solitude. -- Monk"ish*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MONKISH)

• Monastic
• Conventual
• cenobitical
• regular
• monkish

Related words: (words related to MONKISH)

• 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.
• MONASTICALLY
  In a monastic manner.
• MONASTICISM
  The monastic life, system, or condition. Milman.
• MONASTICON
  A book giving an account of monasteries.
• MONASTIC
  A monk.
• 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.
• MONASTIC; MONASTICAL
  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.
• REGULARLY
  In a regular manner; in uniform order; methodically; in due order or time.
• REGULARNESS
  Regularity. Boyle.
• REGULARIZE
  To cause to become regular; to regulate.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• CENOBITIC; CENOBITICAL
  Of or pertaining to a cenobite.
• EXTRAREGULAR
  Not comprehended within a rule or rules. Jer. Taylor.
• IRREGULARIST
  One who is irregular. Baxter.
• IRREGULARLY
  In an irregular manner.
• IRREGULAR
  Not regular; not conforming to a law, method, or usage recognized as the general rule; not according to common form; not conformable to nature, to the rules of moral rectitude, or to established principles; not normal; unnatural; immethodical;