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spiritual

spiritual

660 4.8
Relating to the soul and to religion
  • adjective
  • /ˈspɪrɪtʃuəl/
translation icon : espiritual
  • Many people find comfort in their spiritual beliefs during difficult times.
  • spiritual beliefs
  • spiritual experience
  • spiritual practice

So which is superior, the spiritual or the material?

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Examples

  • But that to me is what spiritual seeking is all about.

  • You need to open your heart and your mind, face your fears, break your chains, come with me on a spiritual journey.

  • Have you been on a spiritual path all along?

  • So it's like a spiritual sort of connection.

  • You have spiritual connection to all of this.

  • Working on your spiritual life?

  • Health is mental health, emotional health, spiritual health and then physical health.

  • Ralph is a very spiritual man, I was told.

  • Perhaps the recovery of this Gospel is the greatest spiritual gain of our day.

    Academic text (2017)
  • What is your most profound spiritual experience while in Argentina?

Synonyms

mystical
vsspiritual
106 7.1

Having a spiritual quality that feels beyond normal understanding

centers on religious, sacred, or soul matters rather than supernatural mystery
mystic
vsspiritual
35 8.1

Having a strong spiritual quality or seeming mysterious

focuses on religious, sacred, or soul matters rather than puzzling mystery
unphysical
vsspiritual
9.1

About the mind or spirit rather than the body

focuses on religious, sacred, or soul matters rather than general immaterial things

Antonyms

75 4.5

Relating to the physical world and everyday life, not the spiritual

2 3.5

Relating to physical things or possessions, not spiritual

Compounds

A person who guides others in religious beliefs and inner life

spiritual being
  • Literature
4 7.5

An invisible presence people believe can affect human life

4 8.6

A religious song made by Black people in the southern United States during slavery

A place beyond the life we can see and touch where gods and unseen beings live

A deep change in the way a person lives after a spiritual awakening

Senior Church of England leaders who sit in the House of Lords

Spiritual Jewel
  • Literature
9.9

A god in the Taoist Trinity linked to Lao-tse

9.9

A card or message saying the sender will offer prayers for someone, often in the Catholic church

A world beyond the physical where a spirit or higher power acts

9.9

A relationship where people form deep emotional bonds guided by spiritual or religious beliefs instead of marriage

How Spiritual

devout
55 5.7
religious
2.7
spiritual
660 4.8
secular
143 4.7

Surface Forms

spiritual positive

Morphology

spiritual = spirit (transparent) = spirit + ual

Standard derivation from 'spirit' giving an adjective meaning 'relating to the soul or non-material matters'.

Etymology

Spiritual comes from Latin spiritus meaning 'breath' or 'spirit', the same root as the everyday word spirit. So spiritual now describes things of the inner life, soul, or religion — the non-physical side of life rather than material things.