spiritual
closely akin in interests, attitude, outlook, etc.: the professor's spiritual heir in linguistics.
of or relating to spirits or to spiritualists; supernatural or spiritualistic.
characterized by or suggesting predominance of the spirit; ethereal or delicately refined: She is more of a spiritual type than her rowdy brother.
of or relating to the spirit as the seat of the moral or religious nature.
of or relating to sacred things or matters; religious; devotional; sacred.
of or belonging to the church; ecclesiastical: lords spiritual and temporal.
of or relating to the mind or intellect.
a spiritual or religious song: authentic folk spirituals.
spirituals, affairs of the church.
a spiritual thing or matter.
Origin of spiritual
1Other words from spiritual
- spir·it·u·al·ly, adverb
- spir·it·u·al·ness, noun
- an·ti·spir·it·u·al, adjective
- an·ti·spir·it·u·al·ly, adverb
- non·spir·it·u·al, adjective, noun
- non·spir·it·u·al·ly, adverb
- non·spir·it·u·al·ness, noun
- pseu·do·spir·i·tu·al, adjective
- pseu·do·spir·i·tu·al·ly, adverb
- qua·si-spir·it·u·al, adjective
- qua·si-spir·it·u·al·ly, adverb
- su·per·spir·it·u·al, adjective
- su·per·spir·it·u·al·ly, adverb
- un·spir·i·tu·al, adjective
- un·spir·i·tu·al·ly, adverb
Words that may be confused with spiritual
- spirited, spiritual , spiritualistic
Words Nearby spiritual
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How to use spiritual in a sentence
Antarctica is in its own right a spiritual kind of experience.
The Greening of Antarctica - Issue 90: Something Green | Marissa Grunes | October 7, 2020 | NautilusPeople who experiment with psychoactive drugs like LSD and magic mushrooms frequently report spiritual fantasies.
Participants in the Catholic charismatic movement also claim spiritual and physical healing associated with the power of the Holy Spirit working through believers.
It seems like there’s a difference between people who do the AT to test themselves physically and those who are maybe looking for some kind of spiritual release.
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Think of it as a frequent buyer program for personal karma, or a spiritual band-aid.
The Buddhist Business of Poaching Animals for Good Karma | Brendon Hong | December 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut Reconcile is from a slightly different arm of Houston hip-hop—more focused on spiritual triumph over the trap.
Down With the King: Christianity Isn’t Hiding in Rap’s Closet | Stereo Williams | December 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey are afflicted with “progressive spiritual emptiness,” he said, which no amount of academic honors and degrees can fill.
Pope Francis Denounces the Vatican Elite’s 'Spiritual Alzheimer’s' | Barbie Latza Nadeau | December 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFirst, though, he has to be shocked into recognizing the barren waste of his spiritual life – by spirits.
That phenomenon is not limited to peaceniks with spiritual aspirations.
The two enjoyed a mutual understanding from which he was excluded, a private intimacy that was spiritual, mental,— physical.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodHitherto the discalced Franciscan religious of this province have had charge of their spiritual matters.
Violent people had been pressing around John, and the cause of spiritual liberation had suffered.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature | Moncure Daniel ConwayIt relates to ancient philosophical ideas concerning the spiritual and the material worlds.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature | Moncure Daniel ConwayHe makes a spiritual form of it so perfectly visible to your inward eye, that it seems as if you could almost hear it breathe!
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British Dictionary definitions for spiritual
/ (ˈspɪrɪtjʊəl) /
relating to the spirit or soul and not to physical nature or matter; intangible
of, relating to, or characteristic of sacred things, the Church, religion, etc
standing in a relationship based on communication between the souls or minds of the persons involved: a spiritual father
having a mind or emotions of a high and delicately refined quality
See Negro spiritual
(often plural) the sphere of religious, spiritual, or ecclesiastical matters, or such matters in themselves
the spiritual the realm of spirits
Derived forms of spiritual
- spiritually, adverb
- spiritualness, noun
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