Corporeal

//kɔːɹˈpɔːɹiəl// adj

adj ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Material; tangible; physical.

    "His omnipotence That to corporeal substance could add Speed almost spiritual."

  2. 2
    Pertaining to the body; bodily; corporal. archaic
Adjective
  1. 1
    having material or physical form or substance wordnet
  2. 2
    affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit wordnet

Synonyms

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bodilysomaticbodilybodilycarnalcorporal

Example

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"Just because people are corporeal born to this world doesn't mean that they understand everything about it, similarly just because somebody's died doesn't mean that they understand everything about the incorporeal world."

Etymology

From Middle English corporealle, equivalent to Latin corporeus + -al, from corpus (“body”); compare corporal.

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