- connected with the human spirit, rather than the body or physical things
- a spiritual experience
- spiritual development
- His music leads us on a spiritual journey.
- the human capacity for spiritual growth
- a lack of spiritual values in the modern world
- We're concerned about your spiritual welfare.
- I consider myself to have deep moral and spiritual values.
Extra Examples- The colours had an almost spiritual quality.
- This is a deeply spiritual piece of music.
- a truly spiritual experience
- He was committed to the welfare, both spiritual and physical, of the men under his command.
- Many Eastern cultures put spiritual values before material values.
- Nurses must respond to the spiritual needs of patients.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- deeply
- truly
- very
- …
- connected with religion
- a spiritual leader
- Father Joubert was their spiritual adviser.
- Buddhist spiritual practice
- For Martin Luther, this is the essence of the spiritual life.
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French spirituel, from Latin spiritualis, from spiritus ‘breath, spirit’, from spirare ‘breathe’.
Idioms
See spiritual in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee spiritual in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishyour 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.
- The first time he visited New Orleans he knew he had found his spiritual home.
- I had always thought of India as my spiritual home.
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