1. (

• spiritual ,
• Negro_spiritual

) a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States ;

1. (

• religious ,
• spiritual

) concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church; "religious texts"; "a member of a religious order"; "lords temporal and spiritual"; "spiritual leaders"; "spiritual songs" ;

2. (

• spiritual ,
• unearthly

) concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; "a spiritual approach to life"; "spiritual fulfillment"; "spiritual values"; "unearthly love" ;

3. (

• spiritual

) lacking material body or form or substance; "spiritual beings"; "the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm"-Lewis Mumford ;

4. (

• apparitional ,
• ghostlike ,
• ghostly ,
• phantasmal ,
• spectral ,
• spiritual

) resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance" ;