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EREMITICAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eremitical mean? 

EREMITICAL (adjective)
  The adjective EREMITICAL has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic livingplay

2. characterized by ascetic solitudeplay

  Familiarity information: EREMITICAL used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EREMITICAL (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

eremitic; eremitical

Context example:

eremitic austerities

Pertainym:

eremite (a Christian recluse)

Derivation:

eremite (a Christian recluse)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Characterized by ascetic solitude

Synonyms:

anchoritic; eremitic; eremitical; hermitic; hermitical

Context example:

his hermitic existence

Similar:

unworldly (not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations)

Derivation:

eremite (a Christian recluse)


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