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Spiritual

see synonyms of spiritual

Noun

1. negro spiritual, spiritual

a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States

Adjective

2. religious, spiritual

concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church

Example Sentences:
'religious texts'
'a member of a religious order'
'lords temporal and spiritual'
'spiritual leaders'
'spiritual songs'

3. spiritual, unearthly

concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul

Example Sentences:
'a spiritual approach to life'
'spiritual fulfillment'
'spiritual values'
'unearthly love'

4. spiritual

lacking material body or form or substance

Example Sentences:
'spiritual beings'
'the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm'

5. apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual

resembling or characteristic of a phantom

Example Sentences:
'a ghostly face at the window'
'a phantasmal presence in the room'
'spectral emanations'
'spiritual tappings at a seance'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Spiritual

see synonyms of spiritual
adjective
1. 
relating to the spirit or soul and not to physical nature or matter; intangible
2. 
of, relating to, or characteristic of sacred things, the Church, religion, etc
3. 
standing in a relationship based on communication between the souls or minds of the persons involved
a spiritual father
4. 
having a mind or emotions of a high and delicately refined quality
noun
5.  Negro spiritual
6. (often plural)
the sphere of religious, spiritual, or ecclesiastical matters, or such matters in themselves
7.  the spiritual

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Spiritual

see synonyms of spiritual
adjective
1. 
of the spirit or the soul as distinguished from the body or material matters
2. 
of, from, or concerned with the intellect; intellectual
3. 
of or consisting of spirit; not corporeal
4. 
characterized by the ascendancy of the spirit; showing much refinement of thought and feeling
5. 
of religion or the church; sacred, devotional, or ecclesiastical; not lay or temporal
6. 
spiritualistic or supernatural
noun
7.  US
any of a type of American folk hymn; specif., any of such songs originating among S U.S. blacks in the 18th and 19th cent. combining African and European musical elements
8.  [pl.]
religious or church matters

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Spiritual

see synonyms of spiritual
adj.
1. Of, relating to, consisting of, or having the nature of spirit; not material; supernatural: spiritual power.
2. Of, concerned with, or affecting the soul: spiritual guidance; spiritual growth.
3. Not concerned with material or worldly things: led a spiritual life.
4. Of or belonging to a religion; sacred: spiritual practices; spiritual music.
n.
1.
a. A religious folk song of African-American origin.
b. A work composed in imitation of such a song.
2. often spirituals Religious, spiritual, or ecclesiastical matters.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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