monkish Definition

nonindulgent, ascetic, monastic, austere, contemplative, pious, abstemious, saintly, hieratic, pietistic, penitential, pharisaical, somnambulistic, hermitic, lumpish, maidenly, byronic, easeful, nabokovian, gnomic, saturnine, puritan, solipsistic, nietzschean, tolstoyan, hemingwayesque, wordsworthian, etiolated, unpoetic, schoolmasterly, jamesian, sesquipedalian, autodidactic, fetishistic, goatish, fleshly, moony, leisured, unornamented, chaucerian, apollonian, whiggish, unexpressive, transcendentalist, hypochondriacal, imperturbable, beatific, elfish, unmodern, prolix, antinomian, priggish, numinous, creaturely, dostoevskian, falstaffian, unrepressed, wittedness, onanistic, joyless, donnish, homiletic, inexpressive, revivifying, unworldly, affectless, swiftian, unbeautiful, comfortless, uninflected, purgatorial, oracular, teacherly, scrofulous, obsessive, epicene, deconstructionist, dostoyevskian, unostentatious, teutonic, orotund, sphinxlike, unpeopled, unembarrassed, deracinated, rabelaisian, taciturn, dilettantish, quotidian, incommunicable, schoolmarmish, bromidic, supernal, overfamiliar, incantatory, uptightness, incommunicative, obsessional, edgeless, inscrutable,