spiritual meaning and definition

SPIRITUAL noun

Definition of spiritual (noun)

1. a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States
   • synonyms: Negro spiritual

SPIRITUAL adjective

Definition of spiritual (adjective)

1. 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"
   • synonyms: religious
2. concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul
   • "a spiritual approach to life"; "spiritual fulfillment"; "spiritual values"; "unearthly love"
   • synonyms: unearthly
3. lacking material body or form or substance
   • "spiritual beings"; "the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm"-Lewis Mumford
4. 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"
   • synonyms: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral