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spiritual Definition

• (n) a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States
• (s) 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"
• (s) concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; "a spiritual approach to life"; "spiritual fulfillment"; "spiritual values"; "unearthly love"
• (s) lacking material body or form or substance; "spiritual beings"; "the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm"-Lewis Mumford
• (s) like or being a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance"

spiritual Synonyms

• apparitional
• ghostlike
• ghostly
• Negro spiritual
• phantasmal
• religious
• spectral
• spiritual
• unearthly