spiritualist
spiritualist noun: one who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.
Noun (1)
spiritualist (plural spiritualists)
- One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.
- One who maintains the philosophic doctrine of spiritualism.
- One who practises spiritism (a.k.a. spiritualism); a believer in the possibility of communication with the dead; one who attempts to communicate with the dead.
Adjective (1)
spiritualist (comparative more spiritualist, superlative most spiritualist)
- Pertaining to spiritualism; spiritualistic.
Noun (2) capitalized: Spiritualist
Spiritualist (plural Spiritualists)
- An adherent of a dissenting reforming tendency during the early modern period, stressing communion with the Holy Spirit and moral improvement through sanctification while rejecting the outwardly church, without necessarily separating from the Roman Catholic Church.
Adjective (2) capitalized: Spiritualist
Spiritualist (not comparable)
- Pertaining to the Spiritualists.
spiritualist meaning in Hindi and Tamil
spiritualist in Hindi
- philosophy: one who maintains the doctrine of spiritualism
- आत्मवादी ātmavādī
spiritualist in Tamil
- ஆன்மீக நோக்காளர்
Synonyms of spiritualist
Forms of spiritualist
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | spiritualists |
| plural | Spiritualists |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more spiritualist |
| superlative | most spiritualist |
Origin of spiritualist
From spiritual + -ist.
Words formed from spiritualist
Questions about spiritualist
- What does spiritualist mean?
- Spiritualist means one who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.
- What is spiritualist in Hindi?
- Spiritualist in Hindi is आत्मवादी (ātmavādī). See Spiritualist meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is spiritualist?
- Spiritualist can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of spiritualist?
- The plural of spiritualist is spiritualists.
Words near spiritualist in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: spiritualist (page history and authors); Spiritualist (page history and authors); spiritualist (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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