monastical

1. 1.

   of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows

   Synonymscloisteredcloistralconventualmonastic

   Similarunworldly

Questions about monastical

What does monastical mean?

monastical means "of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows".

How many syllables are in monastical?

monastical has 4 syllables: mo-na-sti-cal. The stress falls on "na".

What is another word for monastical?

Close synonyms include cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic. 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.

Is monastical a common word?

monastical is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.