spiritualize

Other forms of spiritualize

past tense

spiritualized·

present participle

spiritualizing·

third person

spiritualizes·

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.

Questions about spiritualize

What does spiritualize mean?

spiritualize means "give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spiritualize?

spiritualize has 5 syllables: spi-ri-tu-a-lize. The stress falls on "tu".

What is another word for spiritualize?

Close synonyms include spiritualise, transfigure, glorify, spiritualise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of spiritualize?

The recorded antonyms are literalize.

Is spiritualize a common word?

spiritualize is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.