SPIRITUAL

/ˈspɪɹɪtjʊəl/ ► audio Scrabble 11 Words With Friends 14

Definition

  1. noun a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States. — synonyms: Negro_spiritual
  2. adjective concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church. — synonyms: religious
  3. adjective concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul. — synonyms: unearthly
  4. adjective lacking material body or form or substance.
  5. 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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