Definitions for spiritual
ˈspɪr ɪ tʃu əlspir·i·tu·al

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. spiritual, Negro spiritual(adj)

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

2. religious, spiritual(adj)

   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. spiritual, unearthly(adj)

   concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul

   "a spiritual approach to life"; "spiritual fulfillment"; "spiritual values"; "unearthly love"

4. spiritual(adj)

   lacking material body or form or substance

   "spiritual beings"; "the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm"-Lewis Mumford

5. apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual(adj)

   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"

Wiktionary(1.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. spiritual(Noun)

   A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song.

2. spiritual(Noun)

   Any spiritual function, office, or affair.

   He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals. uE000124811uE001 Lowell.

3. spiritual(Adjective)

   Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul

4. spiritual(Adjective)

   Of or pertaining to the God or a Church; sacred

5. spiritual(Adjective)

   Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural

Webster Dictionary(3.83 / 6 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Spiritual(adj)

   consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being

   Etymology: [L. spiritualis: cf. F. spirituel. See Spirit.]

2. Spiritual(adj)

   of or pertaining to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual

   Etymology: [L. spiritualis: cf. F. spirituel. See Spirit.]

3. Spiritual(adj)

   of or pertaining to the moral feelings or states of the soul, as distinguished from the external actions; reaching and affecting the spirits

   Etymology: [L. spiritualis: cf. F. spirituel. See Spirit.]

4. Spiritual(adj)

   of or pertaining to the soul or its affections as influenced by the Spirit; controlled and inspired by the divine Spirit; proceeding from the Holy Spirit; pure; holy; divine; heavenly-minded; -- opposed to carnal

   Etymology: [L. spiritualis: cf. F. spirituel. See Spirit.]

5. Spiritual(adj)

   not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical; as, the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation

   Etymology: [L. spiritualis: cf. F. spirituel. See Spirit.]

6. Spiritual(noun)

   a spiritual function, office, or affair. See Spirituality, 2

   Etymology: [L. spiritualis: cf. F. spirituel. See Spirit.]

Freebase(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Spiritual

   Spirituals are religious songs that were created by enslaved African people in the United States.

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. spiritual

   Of or relating to the consciousness, spirit or human soul.

   The spiritual nature of humans is to love and support for each other

   Submitted by MaryC on January 23, 2020  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'spiritual' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3990

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'spiritual' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4766

3. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'spiritual' in Adjectives Frequency: #530

How to pronounce spiritual?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of spiritual in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of spiritual in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of spiritual in a Sentence

1. Hideki Matsuyama:

   I love the rain, absolutely love it, not to be spiritual about it, but I feel like it's God's way of just washing the streets and making everything fresh again. Because that's what happens in the Bay Area when we get a lot of rain. The streets are clean, spotless.

2. Swedenborg:

   Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

3. General George Catlett Marshall:

   Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

4. Dr. Felice Leonardo Buscaglia:

   The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

5. Marie Antoniette:

   I die in the Catholic Apostolic and Roman religion, that of my fathers, that in which I was brought up, and which I have always professed. Having no spiritual consolation to look for, not even knowing whether there are still in this place any priests of that religion (and indeed the place where I am would expose them to too much danger if they were to enter it but once), I sincerely implore pardon of God for all the faults which I may have committed during my life. I trust that, in His goodness, He will mercifully accept my last prayers, as well as those which I have for a long time addressed to Him, to receive my soul into His mercy.

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