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}]
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]