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1. Concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church
   "lords temporal and spiritual"; "spiritual leaders"; "spiritual songs"
   - religious
    
2. Concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul
   "a spiritual approach to life"; "spiritual fulfilment"; "spiritual values"
   - unearthly
    
3. Lacking material body or form or substance
   "spiritual beings"; "the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm"
    
4. Resembling or characteristic of a phantom
   "spiritual tappings at a seance"
   - apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral

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

Derived forms: spirituals

See also: immaterial, incorporeal, sacred, spirit, spirituality, spiritually, supernatural, unworldly

Type of: religious song

Encyclopedia: Spiritual