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

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

spiritual

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

religious

adj. 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"

nonmaterial, unearthly

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

pious

adj. having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity; "pious readings"

spiritual, religious

adj. 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"

dedicated, dedicated to, devoted to

adj. solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high purpose; "a life consecrated to science"; "the consecrated chapel"; "a chapel dedicated to the dead of World War II"

pious, devout, godfearing, god-fearing, God-fearing

adj. devoutly religious; "a god-fearing and law-abiding people" H.L.Mencken

holy, hallowed

adj. belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power

buttery, fulsome, smarmy, unctuous

adj. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments"

pious

adj. having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity; "pious readings"

spiritual

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

dedicated, dedicated to, devoted to

adj. solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high purpose; "a life consecrated to science"; "the consecrated chapel"; "a chapel dedicated to the dead of World War II"

pious, devout, godfearing, god-fearing, God-fearing

adj. devoutly religious; "a god-fearing and law-abiding people" H.L.Mencken

holy, hallowed

adj. belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power

buttery, fulsome, smarmy, unctuous

adj. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments"

godly, reverent, worshipful

adj. showing great reverence for god; "a godly man"; "leading a godly life"

divine, godly

adj. emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine guidance"; "everything is black1 or white...satanic or godly"-Saturday Review

intangible, insubstantial

adj. lacking substance or reality; incapable of being touched or seen; "that intangible thing--the soul"

aery, aeriform, airy, ethereal

adj. characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms"

indwelling

adj. existing or residing as an inner activating spirit or force or principle; "an indwelling divinity"; "an indwelling goodness"

inmost, innermost

adj. being deepest within the self; "one's innermost feelings"

interior, internal, inner

adj. located inward; "Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle"- Leonard Bernstein; "she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it"- David Denby; "an internal sense of rightousness"- A.R.Gurney,Jr.

eremitic, anchoritic, hermitic

adj. characterized by ascetic solitude; "the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony"; "his hermitic existence"

monastic, cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastical

adj. of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows

unmercenary

adj. not mercenary; not influenced by financial gains

divine

adj. devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity; "divine worship"; "divine liturgy"

unutterable, ineffable, unspeakable, unnameable

adj. too sacred to be uttered; "the ineffable name of the Deity"

inspirational

adj. imparting a divine influence on the mind and soul

inviolable, inviolate, sacrosanct

adj. must be kept sacred

numinous

adj. evincing the presence of a deity; "a numinous wood"; "the most numinous moment in the Mass"

reverend, sublime, revered, reverenced, venerated

adj. worthy of adoration or reverence

taboo, tabu

adj. forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands

unbodied, bodiless, discorporate, unembodied, disembodied

adj. not having a material body; "bodiless ghosts"

worldly

adj. characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world; "worldly goods and advancement"

lay, temporal, laic, secular, worldly, laical

adj. concerned with secular rather than sacred matters; "lords temporal and spiritual"

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