SPIRITUAL
/ˈspɪɹɪtjʊəl/ ► audio Scrabble 11 Words With Friends 14
Definition
- noun a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States.
— synonyms: Negro_spiritual
- adjective concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church.
— synonyms: religious
- adjective concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul.
— synonyms: unearthly
- adjective lacking material body or form or substance.
- adjective resembling or characteristic of a phantom.
— synonyms: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral
Examples
- “He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals. — Lowell.”
- “Respect towards ancestors is an essential part of Thai spiritual practice.”
- “a spiritual substance or being”
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