Synonyms for spiritual
- adjective
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Ethereal
ethereal, heavenly, incorporeal, supernatural, immaterial, airy, spectral, phantasmal, ghostlike, ghostly dated, apparitional rare
2. Religious — of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred, pure; (Christianity, specifically) inspired by the…
religious, sacred, divine, holy, ecclesiastical, angelic, saintly, pure, pyore US, unworldly, unearthly
Other
mental, internal, disembodied, subjective, spirituous, intellectual formal dated, unfleshly rare, soulular informal rare
Definitions
- adj. 1
Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred, pure; (Christianity, specifically) inspired by the Holy Spirit.
- adj. 2
Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.
Respect towards ancestors is an essential part of Thai spiritual practice.
Related words
Example sentences
- supernatural Tom started to exhibit his supernatural abilities.
- heavenly I love God, the Heavenly Father, who created me.
- ethereal The voice sounded very weird, almost ethereal.
- incorporeal God is incorporeal and has no sex or gender.
- religious He was not a political figure but a religious one.
- sacred The national sovereignty is sacred and inviolable.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| spiritual | rising | |
| supernatural | rising | |
| heavenly | rising | |
| ethereal | rising | |
| incorporeal | rising | |
| religious | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- holy2, pure1, airy2
- 5 letters
- pyore
- 6 letters
- mental2, sacred2, divine2
- 7 letters
- ghostly2, angelic3, saintly2
- 8 letters
- internal3, heavenly3, spectral2, ethereal4, soulular
- 9 letters
- religious3, unearthly3, unworldly, ghostlike2, unfleshly
- 10 letters
- subjective3, immaterial5, phantasmal, spirituous
- 11 letters
- disembodied4, incorporeal
- 12 letters
- intellectual5, supernatural5, apparitional
- 14 letters
- ecclesiastical6
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (holy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- spirituel
- Italiano
- spirituale
- Deutsch
- geistreich