soul

soul is a 4-letter English word with 14 senses as adjective, intransitive verb, noun, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Sole. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 6 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Sole.
2. intransitive verb. To afford suitable sustenance.
3. noun. The spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government; -- sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; -- sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling, in distinction from intellect; -- sometimes, the intellect only; the understanding; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from feeling. In a more general sense, "an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence."
4. noun. The seat of real life or vitality; the source of action; the animating or essential part.
5. noun. The leader; the inspirer; the moving spirit; the heart; as, the soul of an enterprise; an able general is the soul of his army.
6. noun. Energy; courage; spirit; fervor; affection, or any other noble manifestation of the heart or moral nature; inherent power or goodness.
7. noun. A human being; a person; -- a familiar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul.
8. noun. A pure or disembodied spirit.
9. transitive verb. To indue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
10. noun. a human being

    "there was too much for one person to do"

    Synonyms: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone

11. noun. the human embodiment of something

    "the soul of honor"

12. noun. a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s

    "soul was politically significant during the Civil Rights movement"

13. noun. deep feeling or emotion

    Synonyms: soulfulness

14. noun. the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life

    Synonyms: psyche

Synonyms

individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soulfulness, psyche

Common word forms

souls, souled, soulful, soulless

Words from these letters

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