spiritual

Meaning of spiritual

noun

A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song.
Any spiritual function, office, or affair.
He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals. — Lowell.

adjective

Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.
Respect towards ancestors is an essential part of Thai spiritual practice.
Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred.
Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural.
Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal.
a spiritual substance or being
Of or relating to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.
Controlled and inspired by the Holy Spirit; pure; holy.
Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical.
the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation

Information about spiritual

The plural form of spiritual is: spirituals.
Languages in which spiritual is used:
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Hyphenation of spiritual

spir-i-tual

It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
spiritual is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

spiritual synonyms

Meaning religious:

Meaning unearthly:

Meaning apparitional:

apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral

Translation of spiritual

Italian: interiore, mentale, spirituale
Spanish: mental, espiritual

Words that rhyme with spiritual

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