Spiritual ˈspɪrɪtʃuəl Experience Human Home Adjective Development Music

• a spiritual experience
• spiritual development
• his music leads us on a spiritual journey.
• the human capacity for spiritual growth

spiritual

1. connected with the human spirit, rather than the body or physical things
• a spiritual experience
• spiritual development
• His music leads us on a spiritual journey.
• the human capacity for spiritual growth
• a lack of spiritual values in the modern world
• We're concerned about your spiritual welfare.
• I consider myself to have deep moral and spiritual values.

Extra Examples

• The colours had an almost spiritual quality.
• This is a deeply spiritual piece of music.
• a truly spiritual experience
• He was committed to the welfare, both spiritual and physical, of the men under his command.
• Many Eastern cultures put spiritual values before material values.
• Nurses must respond to the spiritual needs of patients.
2. connected with religion
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• a spiritual leader
• Father Joubert was their spiritual adviser.
• Buddhist spiritual practice
• For Martin Luther, this is the essence of the spiritual life.
3. the place where you are happiest, especially a country where you feel you belong more than in your own country because you share the ideas and attitudes of the people who live there
• When she moved to Italy, she knew she'd found her true spiritual home.
• The first time he visited New Orleans he knew he had found his spiritual home.
• I had always thought of India as my spiritual home.

Word Origin

• Middle English: from Old French spirituel, from Latin spiritualis, from spiritus ‘breath, spirit’, from spirare ‘breathe’.