spiritual
/ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.40 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.
adj
Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred, pure; (Christianity, specifically) inspired by the Holy Spirit.
adj
Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural.
adj
Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal.
adj
Of or relating to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.
noun
A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song.
Example Sentences
- "Respect towards ancestors is an essential part of Thai spiritual practice."
- "Brethren, if a man bee ouertaken in a fault: yee which are spirituall, restore such a one in the spirit of meeknesse, considering thy selfe least thou also be tempted."
- "I suppose that’s not surprising, given the spiritual milieu in which I grew up. My mother gasped in sorrow at any news of a bombing in Israel and appropriately “oy veyed” when a Jew was accused of a crime, but she couldn’t tell you what the Shabbat blessing meant."
- "Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film."
- "a spiritual substance or being"
- "It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys-der.? Latin spīrō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin spīritus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin spīrituālisder. Old French spirituelbor. Middle English spiritual English spiritual From Middle English spiritual, spirituel, from Old French spirituel, from Late Latin spīrituālis, from Latin spīritus. By surface analysis, spirit + -ual.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: spiritual, spirituel, spīrituālis, spīritus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/
- British English: /ˈspɪɹɪtʃʊəl/
Inflected Forms
more spiritual (comparative)
most spiritual (superlative)
spirituall (alternative, obsolete)
spirytual (alternative, obsolete)
spirytuall (alternative, obsolete)
spyritual (alternative, obsolete)
spyrituall (alternative, obsolete)
spyrytual (alternative, obsolete)
spyrytuall (alternative, obsolete)
sperichil (alternative, archaic)
spirituals (plural)