spiritual

spiritual is a 9-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being.
2. adjective. Of or pertaining to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.
3. adjective. Of or pertaining to the moral feelings or states of the soul, as distinguished from the external actions; reaching and affecting the spirits.
4. adjective. Of or pertaining to the soul or its affections as influenced by the Spirit; controlled and inspired by the divine Spirit; proceeding from the Holy Spirit; pure; holy; divine; heavenly-minded; -- opposed to carnal.
5. adjective. Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical; as, the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation.
6. noun. A spiritual function, office, or affair. See Spirituality, 2.
7. noun. a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States
8. adjective. lacking material body or form or substance-Lewis Mumford

   "spiritual beings"

   "the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm"

9. adjective. resembling or characteristic of a phantom

   "a ghostly face at the window"

   "a phantasmal presence in the room"

   Synonyms: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral

10. adjective. concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church

    "religious texts"

    "a member of a religious order"

    Synonyms: religious

11. adjective. concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul

    "a spiritual approach to life"

    "spiritual fulfillment"

    Synonyms: unearthly

Synonyms

apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, religious, unearthly

Common word forms

spirituals, spiritually, spiritualise, spirituality, spiritualize, spiritualness

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