Monkish: alternatives and connections

An aversion to the company of men; a love of solitude.

To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind.

Pertaining to the monks of St. Benedict, or St. Benet.

Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the Cistercian monks.

One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude.

Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated.

Mildness and suavity of manners; courtesy between equals; friendly civility; as, comity of manners; the comity of States.

Of or pertaining to a convent; monastic.

Made up like a dandy; having the dress or manners of a dandy; buckish.

Dismal; gloomy with solitude.

Dismalness; gloomy solitude.

To adjust; to put in good order; to arrange; specifically: (a) To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an inten…

Of or pertaining to an eremite; hermitical; living in solitude.

The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; partic…

Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.

A monk or friar of the Order of St. Francis, a large and zealous order of mendicant monks founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi. Th…

A porch or waiting room, usually at the west end of an abbey church, where the monks collected on returning from processions, where bo…

A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives.