spiritual adj

1 concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church; "religious texts"; "a nenber if a religious order"; "lords temporal and spiritual"; "spiritual leaders"; "spiritual songs" [syn: religious]

2 concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; "a spiritual approach to life"; "spiritual fulfillment"; "spiritual values"; "unearthly love" [syn: unearthly]

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

4 like or being a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance" [syn: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral] n : a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States [syn: Negro spiritual]

English

Pronunciation

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul
2. Of or pertaining to the God or a Church; sacred
3. Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural

Derived terms

• spiritual desertion
• spiritualism
• spiritualist
• spirituality
• spiritually

Translations

• Chinese: 精神
• Danish: åndelig
• Dutch: geestelijk, geestelijke, spiritueel, spirituele
• Estonian: vaimne
• Finnish: hengellinen, henkinen, sielullinen
• French: spirituel , spirituelle
• German: geistig
• Greek: πνευματικός , πνευματική , πνευματικό
• Italian: spirituale
• Japanese: 精神的な
• Korean: 영적인
• Norwegian: åndelig, spirituell
• Portuguese: espiritual m|f
• Polish: duchowy , duchowa
• Romanian: sufletesc, spiritual
• Russian: духовный , духовная , духовное , духовные p
• Spanish: espiritual m|f
• Swedish: andlig

Noun

1. An African-American folk song, or a song in that style

Romanian

Etymology

spirituel

Pronunciation

/spi.ri'twal/

Adjective

1. spiritual

Declension

Synonyms

• sufletesc

Spiritual may refer to:

• Spirituality, a concern with matters of the spirit
• Spiritual music, an African American song, usually with a Christian religious text
• Spiritual dance
• Spiritual possession, a concept of many religions, where it is believed that a demon may take temporary control of a human body
• Lords Spiritual, clergymen of the established Church of England who serve in the House of Lords
• Supernatural, refers to forces and phenomena which are beyond ordinary scientific understanding. Concepts in the supernatural domain are closely related to concepts in religious spirituality and metaphysics.
• A branch of the 13th-century Franciscans favoring poverty against the wealth of the Church.

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