eremitic

Questions about eremitic

What does eremitic mean?

eremitic means "of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in eremitic?

eremitic has 4 syllables and divides as e-re-mi-tic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for eremitic?

Close synonyms include eremitical, anchoritic, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of eremitic?

The recorded antonyms are cenobitic.

Is eremitic a common word?

eremitic is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.