| 单词 | spiritual |
| 释义 | spiritual (once / 99 pages) adjn Spiritual things are concerned with sacred matters or religion, affecting the spirit or the soul. Spiritual entities like ghosts lack a material body or substance. Spiritual is the adjective form of the word spirit, which comes from the Latin word for "breath," and means the thing that animates life. Spiritual can be used to talk about anything that goes beyond mere physical existence, from ghost spirits to religious feelings. As a noun, spiritual describes a religious song originating in the African-American culture of the American South. WORD FAMILYspiritual: spiritualise, spiritualism, spirituality, spiritualize, spiritually, spirituals+/dispirit: dispirited, dispiriting, dispirits/dispirited: dispiritedly, dispiritedness/dispiriting: dispiritingly/spirit: dispirit, spirited, spiriting, spiritise, spiritism, spiritize, spiritless, spirits, spiritual/spirited: spiritedest, spiritedly, spiritedness/spiritless: spiritlessly, spiritlessness/spirits: spiritous, spirituous/spiritualise: spiritualisation, spiritualised, spiritualises, spiritualising/spiritualism: spiritualisms, spiritualist, spiritualistic/spiritualist: spiritualists/spiritualistic: spiritualistically/spirituality: spiritualities/spiritualize: spiritualization, spiritualized, spiritualizes, spiritualizing USAGE EXAMPLESMaybe it’s the refreshing lack of jargon, either medical or spiritual. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) There is almost a spiritual quality to it. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) “It’s almost what you would do in some spiritual practice,” she said. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1adj lacking material body or form or substance spiritual beings "the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm"-Lewis Mumford Syn immaterial, incorporeal without material form or substance 2adj concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul a spiritual approach to life spiritual fulfillment spiritual values Syn unearthly unworldly not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations 3adj concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church lords temporal and spiritual spiritual leaders spiritual songs Syn religious sacred concerned with religion or religious purposes 4adj resembling or characteristic of a phantom spiritual tappings at a seance Syn apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral supernatural not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material 5n a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States Syn|Hyper Negro spiritual religious song religious music for singing |
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