SPIRITUAL


Meaning of SPIRITUAL in English

(~s)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

Spiritual means relating to people’s thoughts and beliefs, rather than to their bodies and physical surroundings.

She lived entirely by ~ values, in a world of poetry and imagination.

? temporal

ADJ

~ly

Our whole programme is ~ly oriented but not religious.

ADV

~ity

...the peaceful ~ity of Japanese culture.

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2.

Spiritual means relating to people’s religious beliefs.

The ~ leader of Ireland’s 3.7 million Catholics...

= religious

? secular

ADJ

3.

A ~ is a religious song of the type originally sung by black slaves in America.

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