The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
a. (alternative form of eremitic English)
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living; "eremitic austerities" [syn: eremitic] [ant: cenobitic]
characterized by ascetic solitude; "the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony"; "his hermitic existence" [syn: anchoritic, eremitic, hermitic, hermitical]
characterized by or preferring solitude in mode of life; "the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony"; "a lone wolf"; "a man of a solitary disposition" [syn: eremitic, lone(a), solitary]
Usage examples of "eremitical".
Instead of learning from her century, she seems determined to turn her back on it, to the extent of an eremitical existence somewhere, apparently, in California, judging from the recurrence of redwood trees, Hispanic farm workers, and unrecon structed flower children gone somewhat to seed.