Meaning & Definition of Spiritual in English

1. A kind of religious song originated by blacks in the southern united states

1. Concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church

• "Religious texts"

• "A member 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. Resembling or characteristic of a phantom

• "A ghostly face at the window"

• "A phantasmal presence in the room"

• "Spectral emanations"

• "Spiritual tappings at a seance"