English Explanatory Dictionary

spiritual

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.
  2. Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred, pure; (Christianity, specifically) inspired by the Holy Spirit.
  3. Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural.
  4. Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal.
  5. Of or relating to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.
  6. Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical.
noun
  1. A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song.
  2. Any spiritual function, office, or affair.
noun
  1. A member of a branch of the Franciscan order that advocated simple dress and renounced the owning of property.

Pronunciation

/ˈspɪɹɪtʃʊəl/ /ˈspɪɹɪtjʊəl/ /ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/ /ˈspɪɹɪ̈t͡ʃul̩/ en-us-spiritual.ogg

Word forms

spiritual more spiritual most spiritual spirituall spirytual spirytuall spyritual spyrituall spyrytual spyrytuall sperichil spirituals

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys-der.? Latin spīrō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin spīritus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin spīrituālisder. Old French spirituelbor. Middle English spiritual English spiritual From Middle English spiritual, spirituel, from Old French spirituel, from Late Latin spīrituālis, from Latin spīritus. By surface analysis, spirit + -ual.

Synonyms

folk song

Related words

spiritous spirituous

Derived words

antispiritual antispiritualism antispirituality aspiritual aspirituality cyberspiritual ecospiritual interspiritual nonspiritual panspiritual pseudospiritual psychospiritual religiospiritual sadospiritual spiritual awakening spiritual bypass spiritual bypassing spiritual desertion spiritual healing spiritual incest spiritualisation spiritualise Spiritualism spiritualist spiritualistic spirituality spiritualization spiritualize spiritual jazz spiritual leader spiritually spiritual midden spiritual naturalism spiritual naturalist spiritualness spiritual plane spiritual sequel spiritual violence spiritual warfare spiritual wifery spiritual world superspiritual theospiritual ultraspiritual unspiritual arranged spiritual concert spiritual negro spiritual
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