- 1connected with the human spirit, rather than the body or physical things a spiritual experience spiritual development a lack of spiritual values in the modern world We're concerned about your spiritual welfare. opposite material
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- 2connected with religion a spiritual leader compare temporal
adverb a spiritually uplifting bookIdioms
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. See spiritual in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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