spiritual

Meanings

Adjective

• Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.
• Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred.
• Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural.
• Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal.
• Of or relating to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.
• Controlled and inspired by the Holy Spirit; pure; holy.
• Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical.

Noun

• A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song.
• Any spiritual function, office, or affair.

Related

Similar words

• folk song

Origin

• From Middle English spiritual, spirituel, from Old French spirituel, from Late Latin spiritualis, from Latin spiritus.