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say it: SPIR-i-choo-uhl
spiritual is an adjective and noun meaning "concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church". It is pronounced /ˈspɪɹɪˌtʃuəl/ — SPIR-i-choo-uhl. It carries 5 recorded senses.
concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul
“a spiritual approach to life”
“spiritual fulfillment”
“spiritual values”
“unearthly love”
lacking material body or form or substance
“spiritual beings”
“the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm”
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”
a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for spiritual come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.