<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>of, relating to, or consisting of spirit; incorporeal.</li><li>of or relating to the spirit or soul, as distinguished from the physical nature: a spiritual approach to life.</li><li>closely akin in interests, attitude, outlook, etc.: the professor's spiritual heir in linguistics.</li><li>of or relating to spirits or to spiritualists; supernatural or spiritualistic.</li><li>characterized by or suggesting predominance of the spirit; ethereal or delicately refined: She is more of a spiritual type than her rowdy brother.</li><li>of or relating to the spirit as the seat of the moral or religious nature.</li><li>of or relating to sacred things or matters; religious; devotional; sacred.</li><li>of or belonging to the church; ecclesiastical: lords spiritual and temporal.</li><li>of or relating to the mind or intellect.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a spiritual or religious song, especially one composed by and for Black Americans during the period of legalized slavery in the United States: Spirituals like “Go Down, Moses” were sometimes used as signals on the Underground Railroad.</li><li>spirituals, affairs of the church.</li><li>a spiritual thing or matter.</li></ul>