Monastic

n.	1.	A monk.
a.	1.	Of or pertaining to monasteries, or to their occupants, rules, etc., as, monastic institutions or rules.
	2.	Secluded from temporal concerns and devoted to religion; recluse.

Noun	1.	monastic - a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work Synonyms: monk
Adj.	1.	monastic - of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastical

abbacomes, abbot, ascetic, beadsman, brother, caloyer, celibataire, cenobite, claustral, cloistered, conventical, conventual, conventual prior, friar, grand prior, hermit, hieromonach, lay abbot, lay brother, mendicant, misogamic, misogamist, misogynist, misogynous, monachal, monasterial, monk, monkish, nun, palmer, pilgrim, pillar saint, pillarist, priest, prior, religieux, religious, single, stylite, unmarried