1. Concerned with sacred matters, religion or the church
   "lords temporal and spiritual"; "spiritual leaders";
   - religious
    
2. Concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul
   "a spiritual approach to life"; "spiritual fulfilment";
   - unearthly
    
3. Lacking material body, 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
   "The choir performed traditional spirituals";
   - Negro spiritual

Derived forms: spirituals

See also: immaterial, incorporeal, sacred, supernatural, unworldly

Type of: religious song

Encyclopedia: Spiritual, but not religious