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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living;
- Example: "eremitic austerities"
[syn: eremitic, eremitical]

2. characterized by ascetic solitude;
- Example: "the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony"
- Example: "his hermitic existence"
[syn: anchoritic, eremitic, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Eremitic \Er`e*mit"ic\, Eremitical \Er`e*mit"ic*al\, a.
   Of or pertaining to an eremite; hermitical; living in
   solitude. "An eremitical life in the woods." --Fuller. "The
   eremitic instinct." --Lowell.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

eremitic
    adj 1: of or relating to or befitting eremites or their
           practices of hermitic living; "eremitic austerities"
           [syn: eremitic, eremitical] [ant: cenobitic,
           cenobitical, coenobitic, coenobitical]
    2: characterized by ascetic solitude; "the eremitic element in
       the life of a religious colony"; "his hermitic existence"
       [syn: anchoritic, eremitic, eremitical, hermitic,
       hermitical]