[spir-i-choo-uh
l] 
| 1. | of, pertaining to, or consisting of spirit; incorporeal. |
| 2. | of or pertaining to the spirit or soul, as distinguished from the physical nature: a spiritual approach to life. |
| 3. | closely akin in interests, attitude, outlook, etc.: the professor's spiritual heir in linguistics. |
| 4. | of or pertaining to spirits or to spiritualists; supernatural or spiritualistic. |
| 5. | characterized by or suggesting predominance of the spirit; ethereal or delicately refined: She is more of a spiritual type than her rowdy brother. |
| 6. | of or pertaining to the spirit as the seat of the moral or religious nature. |
| 7. | of or pertaining to sacred things or matters; religious; devotional; sacred. |
| 8. | of or belonging to the church; ecclesiastical: lords spiritual and temporal. |
| 9. | of or relating to the mind or intellect. |
| 10. | a spiritual or religious song: authentic folk spirituals. |
| 11. | spirituals, affairs of the church. |
| 12. | a spiritual thing or matter. |
| spir·i·tu·al (spĭr'ĭ-chōō-əl) adj.
[Middle English, from Old French spirituel, from Latin spīrituālis, of breathing, spiritual, from spīritus, breath; see spirit.] spir'i·tu·al·ly adv., spir'i·tu·al·ness n. |