spiritual
US: /ˈspɪɹɪˌtʃuəɫ/
UK: /spˈɪɹɪtʃˌuːəl/
UK: /spˈɪɹɪtʃˌuːəl/
English Vietnamese dictionary
spiritual /'spiritjuəl/
- tính từ
- (thuộc) tinh thần
- (thuộc) linh hồn, (thuộc) tâm hồn
- (thuộc) thần thánh
- (thuộc) tôn giáo
- spiritual interests: quyền lợi tôn giáo
- có đức tính cao cả, có trí tuệ khác thường (người)
- danh từ
- bài hát tôn giáo của người Mỹ da đen ((cũng) Negro spiritual)
Advanced English dictionary
adjective, noun
+ adjective [usually before noun]
1 connected with the human spirit, rather than the body or physical things: a spiritual experience + spiritual development / growth / needs + a lack of spiritual values in the modern world + We're concerned about your spiritual welfare.
Antonym: MATERIAL
2 connected with religion: a spiritual leader
Compare: TEMPORAL
spiritually adverb: a spiritually uplifting book
Idioms: your spiritual home the place where you are happiest, especially a country where you feel you belong more than in your own country because you share the ideas and attitudes of the people who live there: When she moved to Italy, she knew she'd found her true spiritual home.
+ noun (also Negro spiritual) a religious song of the type originally sung by black slaves in America
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 sacred, ecclesiastic(al), churchly, clerical, priestly, devotional, holy, divine, sacerdotal, religious, non-secular:
Father Craig was in charge of the spiritual aspects of our lives.
2 non-material, incorporeal, psychic(al), mental, psychological, inner:
Spiritual needs are less easily satisfied than physical needs.
Collocation dictionary
VERBS
be
ADV.
deeply, truly, very
This is an deeply spiritual piece of music. a truly spiritual experience
| purely | almost
The colours had an almost spiritual quality.
Concise English dictionary
spirituals'spɪrɪtʃʊəl
noun
+a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States
adj.
+concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church
+concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul
+lacking material body or form or substance
+resembling or characteristic of a phantom
