corporeal
/kɔːɹˈpɔːɹiəl/
corporeal adjective: material; tangible; physical.
Adjective
corporeal (comparative more corporeal, superlative most corporeal)
- Material; tangible; physical.
- His omnipotence That to corporeal substance could add Speed almost spiritual.1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker...
- She is always diagnosing me. My corporeal health is of almost as much interest to her as my spiritual health: she is especially proprietary about my bowels.2000, Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, page 373
- Pertaining to the body; bodily; corporal.
Noun
corporeal (plural corporeals)
- A corporeal entity; a physical being.
corporeal meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
corporeal in Tamil
- ஊன் உடல் தொடர்பான, சரீரம் சார்ந்த, புலப்படும், சடமான, உடல்சார்ந்த, உடம்பினையுடைய
corporeal in Urdu
- جسمانی
corporeal in Bengali
- শারীরিক, ভৌত, বস্তুগত
corporeal in Malayalam
- bodily, fleshly, carnal
- ശാരീരിക, ശാരീരികം, സാംസാരികം, ഐഹികം, മൂർത്ത, സാകാര
More languagesFewer languages
- corporeal in Punjabi
- ਬਦਨੀ badnī, ਮੁਜੱਸਮ mujassam
- corporeal in Sanskrit
- रूपवत् rūpavat
Synonyms of corporeal
Antonyms
Forms of corporeal
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more corporeal |
| superlative | most corporeal |
| Noun | |
| plural | corporeals |
Origin of corporeal
From Middle English corporealle, equivalent to Latin corporeus + -al, from corpus (“body”); compare corporal.
Words formed from corporeal
Words that rhyme with corporeal
- memorial
- monitorial
- territorial
- accessorial
- arboreal
- categorial
- equatorial
- factorial
- inquisitorial
- pictorial
- sartorial
- senatorial
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- tutorial
- accusatorial
- assessorial
- censorial
- combinatorial
- conspiratorial
- cursorial
- dictatorial
- directorial
- editorial
- enchorial
- epichorial
- executorial
- grallatorial
- imperatorial
- incorporeal
- intracorporeal
- lavatorial
- marmoreal
- multifactorial
- observatorial
- piscatorial
- primorial
- promontorial
- proprietorial
- purgatorial
- rasorial
- responsorial
- saltatorial
- scansorial
- sectorial
- spectatorial
- suctorial
- tectorial
- uxorial
- vectorial
- advertorial
- agitatorial
- amatorial
- ambassadorial
- ambulatorial
- ancestorial
- armorial
- assertorial
- auctorial
- auditorial
- authorial
- boreal
Questions about corporeal
- What does corporeal mean?
- Corporeal means material; tangible; physical.
- What is corporeal in Tamil?
- Corporeal in Tamil is ஊன் உடல் தொடர்பான, சரீரம் சார்ந்த, புலப்படும். See Corporeal meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is corporeal?
- Corporeal can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce corporeal?
- Corporeal is pronounced /kɔːɹˈpɔːɹiəl/.
Words near corporeal in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: corporeal (page history and authors); corporeal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); corporeal (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); corporeal (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); corporeal (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ਬਦਨੀ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); रूपवत् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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