spiritual

(noun) a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States. Synonyms: Negro spiritual.

(adj) concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church. Synonyms: religious. Examples: "Religious texts." "A member of a religious order." "Lords temporal and spiritual." "Spiritual leaders." "Spiritual songs."

(adj) concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul. Synonyms: unearthly. Examples: "A spiritual approach to life." "Spiritual fulfillment." "Spiritual values." "Unearthly love."

(adj) lacking material body or form or substance. Examples: "Spiritual beings." "The vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm"-lewis mumford."

(adj) resembling or characteristic of a phantom. Synonyms: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral. Examples: "A ghostly face at the window." "A phantasmal presence in the room." "Spectral emanations." "Spiritual tappings at a seance."