a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States

[ Syn: negro spiritual ]

concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church; religious texts; a member of a religious order; lords temporal and spiritual; spiritual leaders; spiritual songs

[ Syn: religious ]

concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; a spiritual approach to life; spiritual fulfillment; spiritual values; unearthly love

[ Syn: unearthly ]

lacking material body or form or substance; spiritual beings; the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm-Lewis Mumford

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

[ Syn: apparitional , ghostlike , ghostly , phantasmal , spectral ]