spiritual
adjective
1. concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church
- lords temporal and spiritual
- spiritual leaders
- spiritual songs
Similar word(s): sacred, religious
2. concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul
- a spiritual approach to life
- spiritual fulfillment
- spiritual values
Similar word(s): unworldly, unearthly
3. lacking material body or form or substance
- spiritual beings
- the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm
Similar word(s): immaterial, incorporeal
4. resembling or characteristic of a phantom
- spiritual tappings at a seance
Similar word(s): supernatural, apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral
Sentences with spiritual as an adjective:
- Respect towards ancestors is an essential part of Thai spiritual practice.
- a spiritual substance or being
- the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation
noun
1. a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States
Definition categories: communication
Sentences with spiritual as a noun:
- He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals. — Lowell.