Definitions for monkish

monkish monk·ish

Spelling: [muhng-kish]
IPA: /ˈmʌŋ kɪʃ/

Monkish is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 148 anagrams from letters in monkish (hikmnos).

Definitions for monkish

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or resembling a monk:

Origin of monkish

First recorded in 1540-50; monk + -ish1

Examples for monkish

He needs no dungeon keeps and monkish cells to play about in—not he!

And I have always despised the monkish obscurity cultivated by certain academics.

This makes you, at turns, desirous of luxury and monkish asceticism, as you strike a balance between the two.

Now this is not the cold speculation of age, or monkish austerity.

At sight of John's monkish habit he started with surprise and faltered uneasily.

Such is the opinion of a monkish chronicler who wrote in 1522.

The monkish Satan has no dignity about him: in soul and body he is low and deformed.

monkish tales to prey upon their superstition, we were taught.

No other document presents so well as it the ideals of the monkish life.

I took off my hat, that they might see I wore no monkish tonsure, and drank.

Word Value for monkish
Scrable

16

Words with friends

17

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