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.
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Incorporeal
//ɪnkɔː(ɹ)ˈpɔːɹiəl//
Synonyms for "incorporeal" (111 found)
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metaphysicalnonmaterialnonphysicalnonsubstantialoccultoniotherworldlyphantasmphantasmaphantasmalphantasmicphantomphantomicphantomlikepoltergeistpresencepsychicpsychicalrevenantshade
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shadowshadowyshapeshrouded spiritspecterspecterlikespectralspectral ghostspiritspookspritesupernaturaltheophanytransmundaneunconcreteunearthlyunembodiedunextendedunfleshlyunphysicalunsolidunsubstancedunsubstantialunsubstantialityunworldlyvisionwalking dead manwandering soulweightlesswraithwraithlikewraithyzombie
Adjective(2 words)
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4 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
7 entriessimilar
8 entriesTranslations
15 translations across 14 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀσώματος adj (having no material form or physical substance)
Bulgarian
1 entries- нематериален adj (having no material form or physical substance)
Catalan
1 entries- incorpori adj (having no material form or physical substance)
French
1 entries- incorporel adj (having no material form or physical substance)
Galician
1 entries- incorpóreo adj (having no material form or physical substance)
Greek
2 entries- άυλος adj (having no material form or physical substance)
- ασώματος adj (having no material form or physical substance)
Italian
1 entries- incorporeo adj (having no material form or physical substance)
Japanese
1 entries- 無形 adj (having no material form or physical substance)
Old English
1 entries- unlīchamlīċ adj (having no material form or physical substance)
Persian
1 entries- مجرد adj (having no material form or physical substance)
Portuguese
1 entries- incorpóreo adj (having no material form or physical substance)
Russian
1 entries- невещественный adj (having no material form or physical substance)
Spanish
1 entries- incorpóreo adj (having no material form or physical substance)
Volapük
1 entries- nenstöfik adj (having no material form or physical substance)
Sample sentences
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Maybe in another universe, sentient beings, as well as their very environment, are incorporeal.
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The alien is incorporeal, like a ghost.
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The biology on this globe is carbon-based. Some have speculated that there could be silicon-based forms of biology elsewhere in this universe. There yet could be plasma-based biology. There could be incorporeal biology. There could be other probabilities.
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