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MONASTICAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does monastical mean?
• MONASTICAL (adjective)
The adjective MONASTICAL has 1 sense:
1. of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
Familiarity information: MONASTICAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
Synonyms:
cloistered; cloistral; conventual; monastic; monastical
Similar:
unworldly (not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations)
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