| English adjective: spiritual | |||
| 1. | spiritual concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church | ||
| Samples | Religious texts. A member of a religious order. Lords temporal and spiritual. Spiritual leaders. Spiritual songs. | ||
| Synonyms | religious | ||
| Similar | sacred | ||
| Antonyms | profane, secular | ||
| 2. | spiritual concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul | ||
| Samples | A spiritual approach to life. Spiritual fulfillment. Spiritual values. Unearthly love. | ||
| Synonyms | unearthly | ||
| Similar | unworldly | ||
| Antonyms | worldly, secular, temporal | ||
| 3. | spiritual lacking material body or form or substance | ||
| Samples | Spiritual beings. The vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm. | ||
| Similar | immaterial, incorporeal | ||
| Antonyms | corporeal, material | ||
| 4. | spiritual resembling or characteristic of a phantom | ||
| Samples | 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 | ||
| Similar | supernatural | ||
| Antonyms | natural | ||
| English noun: spiritual | |||
| 1. | spiritual (communication) a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States | ||
| Synonyms | Negro spiritual | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | religious song | ||