Spiritual

Definition: Spiritual

Spiritual

Adjective

1. Concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church; "religious texts"; "monks of a religious order"; "lords temporal and spiritual"; "spiritual leaders"; "spiritual songs".

2. Concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; "a spiritual approach to life"; "spiritual fulfillment"; "spiritual values"; "unearthly love".

3. Lacking material body or form or substance; "spiritual beings"; "the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm"-Lewis Mumford.

4. Relating to or concerned with religion or spiritual things; especially dedicated to service in a religion; "a monk of a religious order"; "spiritual leaders"; "religious books"; "spiritual songs".

5. Like or being a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance".

Noun

1. A kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "spiritual" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Spiritual \Spir"it*u*al\, adjective. [Latin spiritualis: compare to French spirituel. See Spirit.]. (references)

Synonyms: Spiritual

Clergy

Pope, Papa, pontiff, high priest, cardinal; ancient flamen, flamen; confessor, penitentiary; spiritual director.

Deity

Superhuman, supernatural; ghostly, spiritual, hyperphysical, unearthly; theistic, theocratic; anointed; soterial.

Immateriality

Adjective: immaterial, immateriate; incorporeal, incorporal; incorporate, unfleshly; supersensible; asomatous, unextended; unembodied, disembodied; extramundane, unearthly; pneumatoscopic; spiritual. (psychical).

Intellect

Adjective: intellectual, mental, rational, subjective, metaphysical, nooscopic, spiritual; ghostly; psychical, psychological; cerebral; animastic; brainy; hyperphysical, superphysical; subconscious, subliminal.

Libertine

Adulteress, advoutress, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie; woman, woman of the town; streetwalker, Cyprian, miss, piece; frail sisterhood; demirep, wench, trollop, trull, baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, minx, harridan; unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman; woman of easy virtue; (unchaste); wanton, fornicatress; Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia, Lais, lorette, cocotte, petite dame, grisette; demimonde; chippy; sapphist; spiritual wife; white slave.

Marriage

Monogamy, bigamy, digamy, deuterogamy, trigamy, polygamy; mormonism; levirate; spiritual wifery, spiritual wifeism; polyandrism; Turk, bluebeard.

Feme, feme coverte; squaw, lady; matron, matronage, matronhood; man and wife; wedded pair, Darby and Joan; spiritual wife.

Nobility

Peer, peerage; house of lords, house of peers; lords, lords temporal and spiritual; noblesse; noble, nobleman; lord, lordling; grandee, magnifico, hidalgo; daimio, daimyo, samurai, shizoku; don, donship; aristocrat, swell, three-tailed bashaw; gentleman, squire, squireen, patrician, laureate.

Piety

Spiritual existence,spiritual existence, odor of sanctity, beauty of holiness.

Adjective: pious, religious, devout, devoted, reverent, godly, heavenly-minded, humble, pure, holy, spiritual, pietistic; saintly, saint-like; seraphic, sacred, solemn.

Crosswords: Spiritual

Italian (spiritual), Romanian (bright, clever, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical, ghostly, humorous, humoursome, immaterial, ingeniously, mental, moral, neat, sacerdotal, sacred, smart, spirited, spiritual, witty).

Had it been found open, you would not have spoken of spiritual unease -- you would have concluded that he'd fallen (Name der Rose, Der; writing credit: Andrew Birkin; Gérard Brach)

Then we just take it for ourselves! We-no listen! We can rule! I can be the king, Gallagher can be the toilet fixer, Chantlis can be the Spiritual Adviser and Pettengail-- has passed out. Ok (Red Planet; writing credit: Chuck Pfarrer)

it's either a leg thing or a spiritual thing, or a psychological thing, or a heart attack (Major League II; writing credit: David S. Ward; R.J. Stewart)

Even if this was not a law, which it is, I'm afraid I would have a lot of difficulty endorsing an enterprise which is as fraught with genuine peril as I believe this one to be. Besides the liquor and the drugs which always seem to accompany such an event the thing that distresses me even more, Ren, is the spiritual corruption that can be involved (Footloose; writing credit: Dean Pitchford)

How can we maintain decorum if our spiritual leader is trying to put his hand up Miss Cascara's skirt (Water; writing credit: Dick Clement; Ian La Frenais)

Getting Spiritual in Brooklyn (1997)

Unity: A Beacon of Spiritual Light to the World Community (1993)

God's Dominion: Spiritual Seekers (1993)

Empire of the Spiritual Ninja (1987)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women (reference)

• The Hidden Life: Hagiographic Essays, Meditations, Spiritual Texts (Collected Works of Edith Stein, Vol 4) (reference)

• Six Spiritual Needs in America Today: Sermons with Chancel Dramas (Discussion Guide) (reference)

• Modern Religion and the Destruction of Spiritual Capacity: Channelled from the Brotherhood (Gentle Wind Book, Vol II) (reference)

• The Psychology of Spiritual Growth/Channelled from the Brotherhood (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Best Spiritual Writing (reference)

• Spiritual Book News (reference)

• Spiritual Life (reference)

• Spiritual Science (reference)

• Spiritual Sword (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Inspiring Moments for soothing stress relief / WAVES: Spiritual Journeys (reference)

• Spiritual Earth: Crystal Water (reference)

• Spiritual Kung Fu (reference)

• Deepak Chopra: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (reference)

• Secrets of the Bird Tribe: Lost Stargate Artifacts and Spiritual Teachings (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Spiritual Song (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• American Greetings Creatacard 6.0 Spiritual Expressions (reference)

• American Greetings Spiritual Expressions 7 (Jewel Case) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A basis of practical knowledge underlies the spiritual healer's rulings ... / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by J. Dauth..

Beliavskii house (circa 1900), and Building of Spiritual Consistory, (early 19th century), Arkhangelsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Negro boys and girls humming spiritual at UCPAPWA (United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America) meeting, Bristow, Oklahoma. The union meeting has become a main social gathering in these sections and has taken on some of the spirit. Credit: Library of Congress.

Song director conducting singing of Negro spiritual at soil conservation meeting at Vernon, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress.

Washington, D.C. Reverend Vondell Gassaway, pastor of the St. Martin's Spiritual Church standing in a bowl of sacred water banked with roses, each of which he blesses and gives to a member who has been annointed and prayed for by a long line of disciples. Credit: Library of Congress.

Spiritual guide / H. Schile, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Blood donation is a spiritual encounter : July is "blood donation with love" month. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. (reference)

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1959)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It might be spiritual, and imparted to him by angelic ministrations

This evening we shall consider for a few moments the nature of the spiritual torments of hell

The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The study included CAM therapies such as special diets, psychotherapy, spiritual practices, and vitamin supplements. (references)

When psychotherapy and spiritual practices were excluded, 69 percent of patients had used at least one CAM therapy in their cancer treatment. (references)

Civil Liberties

Afghanistan

Ismailis are Shi'a, but consider the Aga Khan their spiritual leader. (references)

China

The most widely publicized demonstrations in recent years were those of the FLG spiritual movement. (references)

Vietnam

In general, religious organizations are confined to dealing specifically with spiritual and organizational matters. (references)

Economic History

Swaziland

Most Swazis ascribe a special spiritual role to the monarch. (references)

China

In 1999, China banned the Falun Gong spiritual movement and has since implemented a crackdown on the movement. (references)

Greece

The Greek Orthodox Church is self-governing but under the spiritual guidance of the Ecumenical Patriarch in Istanbul. (references)

Indigenous People

Peru

In accordance with local culture and traditions, most of the native communities have a spiritual relationship with their land, and the concept of land as a marketable commodity is alien to them. (references)

Minorities

Pakistan

Ahmadi leaders charge that militant Sunni mullahs and their followers sometimes stage marches through the streets of Rabwah, a predominantly Ahmadi town and spiritual center in central Punjab. (references)

Uganda

Some officials of "mainstream" Catholic, Protestant, and Muslim religious organizations have called for the closure of Christian churches, which are viewed as "cults." The general assembly of the Ugandan Joint Christian Council (UJCC), a religious body composed of Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Orthodox Churches that has engaged in election activities including civic education and monitoring, referred applications for membership to the association by other spiritual and Pentecostal churches to the UJCC executive, which could help ease tensions between those churches and evangelical groups. (references)

Political Economy

China

An unexpected, day-long sit-in by approximately 10,000 members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement outside the Zhongnanhai leadership compound in downtown Beijing in April 1999, offered a dramatic example of the sorts of challenges likely to confront the CCP as China continues to open and become more pluralistic. (references)

Worker Rights

Kyrgyz Republic

The Labor Code provides for the protection of children from economic exploitation and from work that poses a danger to their health, or spiritual, physical, mental, or academic development. (references)

China

The atmosphere at Tsurphu reportedly remains tense, with a permanent police presence and intensified restrictions on monks that appear to be aimed at discouraging them from following their spiritual teacher into exile. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "spiritual": give smb. spiritual uplift ♦ Kofutu System of Spiritual Healing and Development ♦ lords spiritual ♦ negro spiritual ♦ spiritual adviser ♦ spiritual affinity ♦ spiritual being ♦ spiritual bouquet ♦ spiritual coadjuctor ♦ Spiritual Counseling ♦ spiritual court ♦ spiritual death ♦ spiritual director ♦ spiritual existence ♦ spiritual faculties ♦ spiritual father ♦ Spiritual healing ♦ spiritual incest ♦ Spiritual Integration Therapy ♦ spiritual Jewel ♦ spiritual leader ♦ spiritual life ♦ Spiritual Medicine Path ♦ Spiritual midwifery ♦ spiritual peers ♦ Spiritual psychology ♦ Spiritual psychotherapy ♦ spiritual rebirth ♦ spiritual renewal ♦ spiritual state ♦ spiritual strength ♦ Spiritual Surgery ♦ spiritual welfare ♦ spiritual wife ♦ spiritual world. Additional references.

Beginning with "spiritual": spiritual-aesthetic, Spiritual-minded, Spiritual-mindedness.

Ending with "spiritual": anti-spiritual, extra-spiritual, material-spiritual.

Albanian

shpirtëror (ghostly, incorporeal, inward, noetic, otherworldly, soulful), fetar (pi, pious, religious). (various references)

Arabic 

نفسي (mental), ‏كنسي (ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical), ‏عذري (platonic, pure, vestal, virgin, virginal), ‏روحي (ghostly, immaterial, incorporeal, inner, inward, mental, pneumatic, unearthly, unworldly), ‏روحاني (spiritualistic), ‏شبحي (ghastly, ghostly, spectral, spooky), ‏دينى. (various references)

Bulgarian 

свят (creation, earth, holy, ineffable, sacred, sainted, saintly, sanctimonious, universe, world), свръхестествен (eerie, hyperphysical, metaphysical, miraculous, occult, preternatural, supernatural, supersensible, transcendental, uncanny, unearthly, unnatural, weird), религиозен (pious, religious), църковен (ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical), одухотворен (inspired), негърска религиозна песен, духовен (clerical, clerkly, ghostly, immaterial, inner, moral, noetic, otherworldly, platonic, unfleshly, unworldly). (various references)

Chinese 

精神 (drive, vigor, vitality). (various references)

Czech

spirituál, duchovní (clergyman, divine, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical, intellectual, parson, sacred), církevní (ecclesiastical, religious). (various references)

Danish

fremadskridende svaekkelse af aandsevnerne (mental impairment, mental prostration, spiritual prostration), at bidrage til den menneskelige personligheds aandelige berigelse uden hensyn til race,koen,sprog eller religion (language or religion, to contribute to the spiritual enrichment of the human personality without distinction as to race). (various references)

Dutch

geestelijk (ecclesiastic, mental), geestelijk (mental), geestelýk (ecclesiastic, mental). (various references)

Esperanto

spirita. (various references)

Faeroese

andaligur. (various references)

Farsi 

معنوی (Abstract, Immaterial, Incorporate, Moral, Virtual), غیرمادی (Immaterial), روحی (Inner, Intrinsic, Mental, Numinous, Psychic), بطورروحانی . (various references)

Finnish

hengellinen. (various references)

French

spirituel, sacré, religieux. (various references)

German

geistlich (clerical, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical, religious, sacred), geistig (academic, intellectual, mental, mentally, spiritually, spirituous). (various references)

Greek 

πνευματικόσ (confessor, ghostly, pneumatic), πνευματικός (intellectual, mental), ψυχικόσ (mental, psychic). (various references)

Hebrew 

רוח� י (mental, unworldly), ספיריטואל, � פשי (cordial, mental, psychic, psychological). (various references)

Hungarian

szellemi (intellectual, mental, noetic, otherworldly, pneumatic, psychic), spirituálé, lelki (distemper, exaltation, ghostly, inward, pneumatic, psychic, psychical, to read the riot act to sy). (various references)

Indonesian

rohani (mentally), batiniah (internal). (various references)

Italian

spirituale (ghostly, mental, unworldly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

霊的 (incorporeal), 無形 (abstract, immaterial, intangible, moral), ス�"ード線 (lines drawn to represent motion, pomeranian, spear, spear fishing, speed controller, speed lines, spin, spin out, spin turn, spin-glass, spinning reel, spirit, spirits, spiritualism, Spirochaeta, Spirulina, spitball), 信仰的 (religious). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

し�"�"うてき (religious), れいてき (incorporeal), ス�"リチュアル , むけい (abstract, immaterial, intangible, moral, nonsense, unfounded, unsupported). (various references)

Korean 

영. (various references)

Manx

spyrrydoil, ny hanmey, anmey (agony of mind, of a soul). (various references)

Pig Latin

iritualspay.(various references)

Portuguese

espiritual (ghostly, immaterial, mental, unworldly). (various references)

Romanian

sufletesc (indwelling, soul), spiritual (bright, clever, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical, ghostly, humorous, humoursome, immaterial, ingeniously, mental, moral, neat, sacerdotal, sacred, smart, spirited, witty), mintal (ideally, insane, mental, mentally, phrenic), intelectual (brain, high-brow, intellectual, mental, moral, scholar), inspirator (inspiring), imaterial (aeriform, aery, ghostly, immaterial, incorporeal, insubstantial, unsubstantial), ecleziastic (clergyman, cleric, clerical, ecclesiastic). (various references)

Russian 

спиричуэл духовный, одухотворенный, духовный (clerical, clerkly, ecclesiastical, ghostly, inward, moral, noetic, otherworldly, psychic, sacred, unworldly). (various references)

Scottish

spioradail (a. spiritual). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

duhovni (religious), duševni (inner, mental). (various references)

Spanish

espiritual negro, espiritual (ghostly, inward, mental, otherworldly, unworldly). (various references)

Swedish

själslig (mental), andlig sång, andlig (ecclesiastical, immaterial, mental, moral, otherworldly, sacred). (various references)

Turkish

zeki (apt, as fresh as paint, astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, clear, clever, cute, discerning, ingenious, intellectual, intelligent, keen, keen-witted, longheaded, luminous, neat, nifty, nimble-witted, penetrating, penetrative, perceptional, perspicacious, quick of comprehension, quick on the trigger, quick-witted, sapient, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd, smart, sparkling, subtile, subtle, understanding), tanrısal (celestial, divine, godlike, heavenly, holy, olympian, supernal), ruhsal (inner, mental, psychic, psychical, psychologic, psychological), ruhani (disembodied, ethereal, ghostlike, ghostly, hiero-, immaterial, psychic, unworldly), manevi (bodiless, ghostlike, ghostly, incorporeal, inner, intangible, moral, unearthly, unworldly), esprili (clever, facetious, humoristic, rich, salty, spicy, spirited, witty, wry), dini (ecclesiastical, religious), düşünsel, akli (mentally), akıllı (all there, astute, brainy, clever, cute, intelligent, knowing, knowledgeable, longheaded, reasonable, sagacious, sage, sapient, sensible, smart, sparkling, understanding, well advised, wise). (various references)

Turkmen 

ruhy (ecclesiastical, mental). (various references)

Ukrainian

спіричуал, церковний (church, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical), віруючий (believer, churchman, prayer), одухотворений, побожний (devotional, devout, pious, religious, sanctimonious), духовний (clerical, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical, ghostly, inward, psychic, sacred, unworldly), дотепний (attic, brainy, cute, dodgy, facetious, ingenious, jocular, nimble, nimble-witted, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-witted, waggish, witty). (various references)

Welsh

ysbrydol (high-spirited). (various references)

spiritale, spiritalem, spiritales, spiritali, spiritalia, spiritalibus, spiritalis, spiritalium. (various references)

mainyêush, mainyaoibyascâ, manahîm. (various references)

gastlic. (various references)

immaterialis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "spiritual": spiritualism, spiritualisms, spiritualist, spiritualistic, spiritualists, spiritualities, spirituality, spiritualization, spiritualizations, spiritualize, spiritualized, spiritualizes, spiritualizing, spiritually, spiritualness, spiritualnesses, spirituals, spiritualties, spiritualty. (additional references)

Words ending with "spiritual": unspiritual. (additional references)

Words containing "spiritual": despiritualize, despiritualized, despiritualizes, despiritualizing, respiritualize, respiritualized, respiritualizes, respiritualizing. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Spiritual" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Espiritu, spartitura, spiritualy, spirituel, spiritural, spirtual. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: stipular.

-2 letters: rituals, spirula, upstair.

-3 letters: aurist, lustra, pastil, pilaus, pistil, plaits, pulsar, purist, rapist, ritual, spiral, spirit, spital, tapirs, trails, trials, tulips, ultras, upstir, urials.

-4 letters: airts, alist, arils, astir, atrip, auris, lairs, lapis, laris, liars, liras, litai, litas, pails, pairs, paris, parts, pilar, pilau, pilis, pilus, pitas, plait, plats, prats, praus, pruta.

+1 letter: spirituals.

+2 letters: pluralistic, pluralities, spiritually, spiritualty, unspiritual.

+3 letters: apiculturist, ca<