The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word MONK which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1983.
Monastic crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| MONK | 40 % | 4 |
| OBLATE | 20 % | 6 |
| MONKLY | 20 % | 6 |
| PRIOR | 20 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Monastic
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- monk
- cloistered
- monastical
- cloistral
- conventual
- unworldly
- monastery
- monkish
- monasteries
- cenobitic
- ascetic
- monks
Crossword Answer definitions
MONK noun- A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service.
- In earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lived communally.
- A male who leads an isolated life; a loner, a hermit.
- An unmarried man who does not have sexual relationships.
- A judge.
- A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed; distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a deficiency of ink.
- A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.
- A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthosternos.
- The bullfinch, common bullfinch, European bullfinch, or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
- The monkfish.
- A fuse for firing mines.
- To be a monk.
- To act like a monk; especially to be contemplative.
- To monkey or meddle; to behave in a manner that is not systematic.
- To be intoxicated or confused.
- To be attached in a way that sticks out.
- A monkey.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result MONK
- Jazzman Thelonious
- Benedictine, for one
- "Straight, No Chaser" jazzman
- Brother
- Shalhoub sleuth
- Tony Shalhoub role
- Member of the Benedictines
- Thelonious of jazz
- Monastery man
- Abbey resident
More clues leading to the result OBLATE
- Flattened at the poles
- Like Earth's shape
- Like a flattened O
- Monastery resident
- Not quite spherical
- Flattened
- Layperson
- Flattened at the poles.
- Flattened at the poles, as the earth is.
- Secular member of a monastery.