spiritual

adj 1: concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church;

"religious texts"; "monks of a religious order";

"lords temporal and spiritual"; "spiritual leaders";

"spiritual songs" [syn: {religious}]

2: concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; "a spiritual

approach to life"; "spiritual fulfillment"; "spiritual

values"; "unearthly love" [syn: {unearthly}]

3: lacking material body or form or substance; "spiritual

beings"; "the vital transcendental soul belonging to the

spiritual realm"-Lewis Mumford

4: relating to or concerned with religion or spiritual things;

especially dedicated to service in a religion; "a monk of

a religious order"; "spiritual leaders"; "religious

books"; "spiritual songs" [syn: {religious}]

5: like or being a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a

phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations";

"spiritual tappings at a seance" [syn: {apparitional}, {ghostlike},

{ghostly}, {phantasmal}, {spectral}]

n : a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the

southern US [syn: {Negro spiritual}]