adjective, noun
adjective [usuallybeforenoun]
1 connected with the human spirit, rather than the body or physical things:
a spiritual experience * spiritual development / growth / needs * a lack of spiritual values in the modern world * We're concerned about your spiritual welfare.
OPPMATERIAL
2 connected with religion:
a spiritual leader
compareTEMPORAL
spiritually adverb:
a spiritually uplifting book
IDIOMS
your spiritual home the place where you are happiest, especially a country where you feel you belong more than in your own country because you share the ideas and attitudes of the people who live there:
When she moved to Italy, she knew she'd found her true spiritual home.
noun (also Negro spiritual) a religious song of the type originally sung by black slaves in America
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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