- cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical - of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
Antonym: worldly (indirect, via unworldly)
- monk, monastic - a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work
--1 is a kind of religious
--1 has particulars:Brother; Carthusian; Trappist, Cistercian; Bacon, Roger Bacon; Benedict, Saint Benedict, St. Benedict; Mendel, Gregor Mendel, Johann Mendel