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[ muhng-kish ] / ˈmʌŋ kɪʃ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR monkish ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveof, relating to, or resembling a monk: a monkish manner. Origin of monkishFirst recorded in 1540–50; monk + -ish1 OTHER WORDS FROM monkishmonk·ish·ly, adverbmonk·ish·ness, nounWords nearby monkishmonkey tricks, monkey wrench, monkfish, Mon-Khmer, monkhood, monkish, monks, monk's cloth, monk seal, monkshood, Monks' Mound Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for monkishAnd I have always despised the monkish obscurity cultivated by certain academics. How I Write: Stephen Greenblatt, Pulitzer Winner of ‘The Swerve’|Noah Charney|September 19, 2012|DAILY BEAST This makes you, at turns, desirous of luxury and monkish asceticism, as you strike a balance between the two. The Stars Predict Your Week|Starsky + Cox|October 9, 2011|DAILY BEAST Relying on their spiritual pretensions, the monkish scribes gloried in ignorance and paraded want of grammar as a sign of grace. ' Renaissance in Italy, Volume 2 (of 7)|John Addington Symonds In the exasperated state, especially of the monkish mind, prayers for Becket would easily slide into anathemas against the king. Life of Thomas Becket|Henry Hart Milman
Among the monkish loot at St. Albans was an ancient cameo herewith reproduced. Archaic England|Harold Bayley Let us hear no more then of this monkish cant, and bigotted outcry for the restoration of the horns and tail of the devil! Hazlitt on English Literature|Jacob Zeitlin Nothing can be more amusing than the satire which some of these pieces throw on the character of monkish Latin. A History of Caricature and Grotesque|Thomas Wright
British Dictionary definitions for monkish
adjectiveof, relating to, or resembling a monk or monks Derived forms of monkishmonkishly, adverbmonkishness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to monkishsecluded, austere, contemplative, solitary, ascetic, pastoral, ministerial, monastic, ecclesiastical, rabbinical, celibate, oblate, reclusive, canonical, ecclesiastic, holy, papal, pontifical, sacerdotal, sacred |