Adjective: monachal
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more monachal |
| Superlative | most monachal |
Sample Sentences
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Her thin hands were lying on her lap, her facial immobility had in it something monachal. [1911, Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes, Penguin Classics, published 2007, page 86:]
Adjectives inflected like monachal
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Late Latin monachalis, from Latin monachus (“monk”). Compare French monacal. See monk. See: French Adjectives '
monacal'.