noun
- A kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States.
- synonyms: Negro spiritual
adjective
- Concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church.
- usage: "religious texts"; "a member of a religious order"; "lords temporal and spiritual"; "spiritual leaders"; "spiritual songs"
- synonyms: religious
- Concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul.
- usage: "a spiritual approach to life"; "spiritual fulfillment"; "spiritual values"; "unearthly love"
- synonyms: unearthly
- Lacking material body or form or substance. "spiritual beings"; "the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm-Lewis Mumford
- Resembling or characteristic of a phantom.
- usage: "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
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