monkish
adjEtymology From monk + -ish.
1
Pertaining to, or resembling, a monk or monasticism.
- Among the most curious, original, and lively of the monkish Latin poems, are those least in harmony with their cold ascetic discipline.1870, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity, page 319:
2
Tending to self-denial; ascetic.
- Derived terms
- monkishly, monkishness, unmonkish