| 单词 | incorporeal |
| 释义 | incorporeal (once / 12628 pages) adj Something that has no material form or physical substance can be described as incorporeal. If you believe in spirits or ghosts that can't be touched or seen but only felt, then you believe in the incorporeal. Incorporeal comes from a combination of the Latin root words in- meaning "not" and corpus meaning "body." Combined they form incorporeus, meaning "without body," which is precisely what something incorporeal is. A haunted house is plagued by incorporeal, or immaterial spirits. You don't see them, but they are there, rattling windows, slamming doors, scaring the living daylights out of you. WORD FAMILYincorporeal: incorporeality, incorporeally+/corporeal: corporeality, corporeally, incorporeal USAGE EXAMPLESHouben, a German composer, pianist, organist, and musicologist, likewise brushes against tonal harmonies in her music; they resemble figures in thick fog, familiar yet incorporeal. The New Yorker(Aug 29, 2016) Whether it’s men fighting ghosts, as in the 1984 original, or women, as in the upcoming remake, why should it matter to the incorporeal? The Guardian(Mar 05, 2016) It’s convenient to have an incorporeal bogey man to blame. The Guardian(Sep 01, 2015) adj without material form or substance an incorporeal spirit Syn|Ant immaterial unbodied having no body bodiless, discorporate, disembodied, unbodied, unembodiednot having a material body spirituallacking material body or form or substance corporeal, material having material or physical form or substance bodiedhaving a body or a body of a specified kind; often used in combination bodilyhaving or relating to a physical material body bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnatepossessing or existing in bodily form reincarnatehaving a new body |
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