Synonyms of spiritual

Noun


1. spiritual, Negro spiritual, religious song

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

Adjective


1. religious, spiritual, sacred (vs. profane)

usage: concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church; "religious texts"; "a member of a religious order"; "lords temporal and spiritual"; "spiritual leaders"; "spiritual songs"

2. spiritual, unearthly, unworldly (vs. worldly)

usage: concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; "a spiritual approach to life"; "spiritual fulfillment"; "spiritual values"; "unearthly love"

3. spiritual, incorporeal (vs. corporeal), immaterial

usage: lacking material body or form or substance; "spiritual beings"; "the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm"-Lewis Mumford

4. apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual, supernatural (vs. natural)

usage: resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance"

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Definition and meaning of spiritual (Dictionary)