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incorporeal

/ɪnkɔː(ɹ)ˈpɔːɹiəl/

incorporeal adjective: having no material form or physical substance.

Adjective

incorporeal (comparative more incorporeal, superlative most incorporeal)

  1. Having no material form or physical substance.
    • Thus incorporeal spirits to smaller forms / Reduced their shapes immense.1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
    • Sense and perception must necessarily proceed from some incorporeal substance within us.1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693
  2. Relating to an asset that does not have a material form; such as a patent.

Noun

incorporeal (plural incorporeals)

  1. Something that is incorporeal.
    • The World is all viciſsitude and converſion. Nor is it onely true in Materials and Substances; but even in Spirits, in Incorporeals; […]1628, Ow[en] Felltham, “Of Assimilation”, in Resolves or, Excogitations. A Second Centurie. (Resolves: A Duple Century […]), London: […] [George Purslowe] for Henry Seile, […], →OCLC, page 195
    • The divine nature of the celeſtial bodies cannot be ſeen through the teleſcope, and incorporeals are not to be viewed with a microſcopic eye: […]1793, Thomas Taylor, “The Timæus of Plato: A Dialogue on Nature”, in The Cratylus, Phædo, Parmenides and Timæus of Plato. […], London: […] Benjamin and John White, […], →OCLC, Introduction, page 395

incorporeal meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Persian

incorporeal in Tamil

சரீரமில்லா, உடலில்லா, உருவமற்ற, அருவமான, நுண்ணியலான, நுண்பொருளியலான

incorporeal in Bengali

incorporeal, having no physical form
অকায় okaẏ

incorporeal in Malayalam

non-physical, intangible, impalpable
ശരീരമില്ലാത്ത, നിരാകാരമായ, അരൂപമായ, അനംഗ, അശരീരിയായ, നിരവയവമായ

incorporeal in Persian

having no material form or physical substance
مجرد mojarrad

Synonyms of incorporeal

Antonyms

Forms of incorporeal

Adjective
comparativemore incorporeal
superlativemost incorporeal
Noun
pluralincorporeals

Origin of incorporeal

From Latin incorporeus + -al. By surface analysis, in- + corporeal.

Words formed from incorporeal

Words that rhyme with incorporeal

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Questions about incorporeal

What does incorporeal mean?
Incorporeal means having no material form or physical substance.
What is incorporeal in Tamil?
Incorporeal in Tamil is சரீரமில்லா, உடலில்லா, உருவமற்ற. See Incorporeal meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is incorporeal?
Incorporeal can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce incorporeal?
Incorporeal is pronounced /ɪnkɔː(ɹ)ˈpɔːɹiəl/.

Words near incorporeal in the dictionary

  1. incorporation
  2. incorporations
  3. incorporative
  4. incorporator
  5. incorporators
  6. incorporeal
  7. incorporealism
  8. incorporealist
  9. incorporealists
  10. incorporealities
  11. incorporeality

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Adapted from Wiktionary: incorporeal (page history and authors); incorporeal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অকায় (Bengali) (page history and authors); incorporeal (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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