spiritual

Meanings

Plural: spirituals

Noun

• a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States
• A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song.
• Any spiritual function, office, or affair.

Adjective Satellite

• concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church
  • "lords temporal and spiritual"
  • "spiritual leaders"
  • "spiritual songs"
• concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul
  • "a spiritual approach to life"
  • "spiritual fulfillment"
  • "spiritual values"
• lacking material body or form or substance; ; -Lewis Mumford
  • "spiritual beings"
  • "the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm"
• resembling or characteristic of a phantom
  • "spiritual tappings at a seance"

Adj

• Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.
• Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred, pure; (Christianity, specifically) inspired by the Holy Spirit.
• Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural.
• Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal.
• Of or relating to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.
• Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical.

Synonyms

apparitional, folk song, ghostlike, ghostly, Negro spiritual, phantasmal, religious, spectral, unearthly

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