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soul has 7 distinct synonyms spread across 3 of its 5 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for soul come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
the human embodiment of something
“the soul of honor”
a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s
“soul was politically significant during the Civil Rights movement”