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

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

1. spiritual, Negro spiritualadjective

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

2. religious, spiritualadjective

   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, unearthlyadjective

   concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul

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

4. spiritualadjective

   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, spiritualadjective

   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. spiritualnoun

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

2. spiritualnoun

   Any spiritual function, office, or affair.

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

3. spiritualadjective

   Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul

4. spiritualadjective

   Of or pertaining to the God or a Church; sacred

5. spiritualadjective

   Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural

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

1. Spiritualadjective

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

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

2. Spiritualadjective

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

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

3. Spiritualadjective

   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. Spiritualadjective

   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. Spiritualadjective

   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. Spiritualnoun

   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.

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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

How to say spiritual in sign language?

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. Nathaniel Hawthorne:

   A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

2. Vanessa Nosie:

   It's trying to wake up the world... how America is going to get better and heal is to learn the first chapter of what happened to indigenous people, this is a spiritual movement.

3. Adam Braun:

   [The film] showed a scene that was shot on the banks of the Ganges River in Varanasi, India, i was so motivated by that scene that I decided I had to get to India. 'Spiritual moment'.

4. Mwanandeke Kindembo:

   The devil is our spiritual police man. Unless you wish to do good, then you will be saved from getting a ticket or going to court.

5. Ronald David Laing:

   We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world -- mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.

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