Monkish
[mʌŋkiʃ]
Definition
(a.) Like a monk, or pertaining to monks; monastic; as, monkish manners; monkish dress; monkish solitude.
Typed by Jeanette
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See MONASTIC]
Editor: Milton
Examples
- You have forgotten one--that which touched on the pupil's lack of affection--on his hard, cold, monkish heart. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Such were Gregory I (590-604) the Great, the first monkish Pope, the friend of Benedict, the sender of the English mission. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Quicker than thought, quicker than the lightning's flash, fifty monkish habits disappeared, and fifty knights in splendid armor stood revealed! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Near the wall stood a fragment of sculptured stone--a monkish relic--once, perhaps, the base of a cross. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Editor: Milton