1. (noun)spiritual, Negro spiritual a kind of religioussong originated by Blacks in the southern United States
2. (adj)religious, spiritual 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"
3. (adj)spiritual, unearthly concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul "a spiritual approach to life"; "spiritual fulfillment"; "spiritual values"; "unearthly love"
4. (adj)spiritual lacking materialbody or form or substance "spiritual beings"; "the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm"-Lewis Mumford
5. (adj)apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual 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"