The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
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Spirit
//ˈspɪɹɪt//
Synonyms for "spirit" (640 found)
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Closest matches (128)
heartintentlivelinessabandonabduceabductactionactivityadventuresomenessadventurousnessaffective meaningafflatusaggressionaggressivenessaimairairy nothingalacrityalcoholambition
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ambitiousnessamphibiananimaanima humanaanimal spiritsanimateanimating forceanimationanimusanxietyanxiousnessapparitionappearanceappetiteaqua vitaeardencyardorastralastral bodyastral spiritatmanatmosphereattitudeatuaaudacityauraavidityavidnessaxiombabackboneballsbansheebaringbathmismbearingbeating heartbeingbentbiological clockbiorhythmbloodbody buildbody-buildbogeybonesboozebosombottombrandbraverybreastbreathbreath of lifebreathless impatiencebreezinessbriobrisknessbubblebubblinessbuddhibuilding blockcapersomenesscarry awaycarry offcastcentercenter of lifecharactercharacteristiccharacteristicscheercheerful readinesschutzpahclimatecockles of the heartcoloringcoltishnesscommitmentcommittednesscomplexioncompositionconcentrateconcentrationconfidenceconnotationconsciousnessconsequenceconstituentsconstitutioncontrolcorecouragecrasiscreative thoughtcreativitycrimpcuedaemondaimoniondaringdashdauntlessnessdecoctiondedication
Noun(3 words)
Strong matches (192)
demondenotationdeparted spiritdesiredevotednessdevotiondevoutnessdharmadiathesisdisembodied spiritdispositiondistillatedistillationdivine afflatusdivine breathdivine sparkdriftdrinkdriveduppy
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dybbukdynamismeagernessearnestnessebullienceecstasyeffecteffervescenceegoeidolonelanelan vitalelixireloquenceembueemotional stateenergyenlivenenterpriseenterprisingnessenthusiasmesoteric realityespritesprit de corpsessenceessence of lifeessentialetherethosevil spiritevil spiritsexcitementexhilarateexpressionextensionextractextractionexuberancefabricfaithfaithfulnessfeelfeelingfeelingsfervencyfervidnessfervorfiberfidelityfightfirefire of geniusfirewaterflowerfocusforceforce of lifeforcefulnessformfortitudeforwardnessframeframe of mindfriskinessfrolicsomenessfundamentalfurorfurygaietygallantrygamenessgamesomenessgaynessgeistgeniusget-up-and-getget-up-and-gogetupghostgimpgingergistglowgogo aheadgo-aheadgo-gettinggo-to-itivenessgodgraingrammatical meaninggrateful deadgravamengritgroggross bodygrowth forceguidegumptiongustgustogutgutsgutsinessguttinesshabithanthauntheart of heartsheart of oakheartbeatheartbloodheartinessheartstringsheatheatednessheroismhold for ransomholy spirithoochhuehumorhumorshustlehypostasisiideaidolumilkillusionimbueimmaterialityimpactimpassionednessimpatienceimpetuosityimpetusimplicationimportimpressimpulseimpulse of lifeinclinationincorporealincorporeal beingincorporeityinfectinforminfuseinfusioninitiativeinjectinmost heartinmost soulinner essenceinner maninner natureinnermost beinginoculateinsideinspirationinspireinspirit
Related words (320)
inspiriting forceintelligenceintensionintensityintentionintentnessintestinal fortitudejivajivatmajoie de vivrejuicekamakeen desirekeennesskernelkhukidnapkindlarvalemures
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lexical meaninglifelife breathlife cyclelife essencelife forcelife principlelife processlifebloodlinga shariraliquorliteral meaningliving forceloyaltylustinessmakeupmanasmanesmanfulnessmanhoodmanlinessmarrowmasanmaterialmaterializationmattermeaningmeatmediummediumismmessagemettlemettlesomenessmightmilieumindmistmoldmoodmoralemotivationmouldmouldermouldymoxiemusenaturenecromancynepheshnervenerve centernitty grittynotenotionnubnucleusnuts and boltsodoronioomphovertonepanachepassionpassionatenesspassionspeppepperpeppinessperkinesspersonapertinencepertnessphantasmphantasmaphantomphysical bodyphysiquepiquancypiss and vinegarpithpizzazzplayfulnesspluckpluckinesspneumapoignancypointpoltergeistpostulatepotentialpowerpractical consequencepranapresenceprincipleprinciple of desirepromptnesspropertypsychepungencypurificationpurportpurposepurushapushpushfulnesspushinesspushingnessqualityquickquicknessquidquiddityquintessenceracinessrange of meaningreadinessreal meaningreferencereferentrefinementrelationrelevancerelishresolutenessresolutionresolverevenantrobustnessrollicksomenessrompishnessruachrun away withsandsapsaucesavorscopeseanceseat of lifesecret heartsecret placesecret placesselfsemantic clustersemantic fieldsensesentimentsseriousnessshadeshadowshanghaishapeshrouded spiritsignificancesignificationsignificatumsignifiesinceritysittingskittishnessskyjacksmokesnapsnatchsniffsomatotypesortsoulspan of meaningspark of lifesparklespecterspectral ghostspectrumspicespirit awayspirit upspiritednessspiritismspiritsspiritual beingspiritualismspiritusspooksportivenesssprightlinessspritespunkspunkinessstaminastampstarchstate of mindsthula sharirastout heartstrainstreakstrengthstripestrong drinkstructural meaningstuffstylesubstancesuchnesssumsum and substancesupernatural beingsymbolic meaningsystemtake awaytalentteam spirittempertemperamenttendencytenorthe nitty-grittythe selftheophanythin airthoughttimbretippletonetotality of associationstoughnesstransferred meaningtransporttrue beingtrue grittrue inwardnesstypeumbraunadorned meaningundertoneunsubstantialityup-and-comingnessurgevalorvaluevaporvehemenceveinventuresomenessventurousnessvervevigorvimvis vitaevis vitalisvisceravisionvital energyvital flamevital fluidvital forcevital principlevital sparkvital spiritvitalityvitalsvivaciousnessvivacityvividnesswalking dead manwandering soulwarmthwarmth of feelingwaywhite spiritwillwraithzealzealousnesszestzestfulnesszingzipzombie
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31 entriesShowing 16 of 31 words.
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5 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesat location
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13 entriesmanner of
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45 entriesShowing 16 of 45 words.
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19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
Translations
415 translations across 128 languages.
Afar
1 entries- rooci noun (soul)
Afrikaans
4 entries- gees noun (soul)
- gees noun (supernatural being)
- gees noun (enthusiasm)
- spiritus noun (alcohol)
Albanian
4 entries- ama noun (soul)
- avë noun (soul)
- hije noun (supernatural being)
- shpirt noun (soul)
Ancient Greek
4 entries- πνεῦμα noun (soul)
- φάσμα noun (supernatural being)
- φρόνημα noun (soul)
- ἐκθυμία noun (enthusiasm)
Arabic
4 entries- روح noun (soul)
- روح noun (soul)
- روح noun (supernatural being)
- رُوح noun (soul)
Aramaic
4 entries- רוּחָא noun (soul)
- רוּחָא noun (supernatural being)
- ܪܘܚܐ noun (soul)
- ܪܘܚܐ noun (supernatural being)
Armenian
2 entries- հոգի noun (soul)
- սպիրտ noun (alcohol)
Asturian
3 entries- espíritu noun (soul)
- espíritu noun (supernatural being)
- espíritu noun (enthusiasm)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- ruh noun (soul)
Bangi
1 entries- molimo noun (soul)
Bashkir
4 entries- рух noun (soul)
- рух noun (enthusiasm)
- эйә noun (soul)
- әруах noun (supernatural being)
Belarusian
4 entries- алкаго́ль noun (alcohol)
- дух noun (soul)
- дух noun (supernatural being)
- дух noun (manner or style)
Bengali
1 entries- রূহ noun (soul)
Bhojpuri
1 entries- आत्मा noun (soul)
Breton
1 entries- spered noun (soul)
Bulgarian
4 entries- алкохо́л noun (alcohol)
- въодушевле́ние noun (enthusiasm)
- дух noun (soul)
- дух noun (supernatural being)
Burmese
1 entries- ဝိညာဉ် noun (soul)
Catalan
2 entries- esperit noun (soul)
- esperit noun (supernatural being)
Chamicuro
1 entries- sana'ne noun (soul)
Cheyenne
2 entries- mȧhta'sóoma noun (soul)
- séo'ȯtse noun (soul)
Chichewa
1 entries- mzimu noun (supernatural being)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 幽靈 /幽灵 noun (supernatural being)
- 神采 noun (enthusiasm)
- 精神 noun (enthusiasm)
- 酒 noun (alcohol)
Church Slavic
2 entries- доуша noun (soul)
- духъ noun (soul)
Chuukese
1 entries- ngun noun (soul)
Czech
4 entries- duch noun (soul)
- duch noun (supernatural being)
- duch noun (manner or style)
- duše noun (soul)
Danish
4 entries- alkohol noun (alcohol)
- kraft noun (enthusiasm)
- liv noun (enthusiasm)
- mod noun (enthusiasm)
Dari
3 entries- رَوَان noun (soul)
- رُوح noun (soul)
- مِینو noun (supernatural being)
Dutch
2 entries- geest noun (soul)
- geest noun (supernatural being)
Eastern Mari
1 entries- ӧрт noun (soul)
Esperanto
3 entries- alkoholaĵo noun (alcohol)
- spirito noun (soul)
- spirito noun (supernatural being)
Estonian
4 entries- hing noun (soul)
- piiritus noun (alcohol)
- vaim noun (supernatural being)
- viin noun (alcohol)
Finnish
4 entries- alkoholi noun (alcohol)
- haamu noun (supernatural being)
- henki noun (soul)
- henki noun (supernatural being)
French
4 entries- esprit noun (soul)
- esprit noun (supernatural being)
- esprit noun (enthusiasm)
- esprit noun (manner or style)
Friulian
1 entries- spirt noun (soul)
Gagauz
3 entries- duh noun (soul)
- ruh noun (soul)
- ruh noun (supernatural being)
Galician
3 entries- esprito noun (soul)
- espírito noun (soul)
- espírito noun (supernatural being)
Georgian
4 entries- სპირტი noun (alcohol)
- სული noun (soul)
- სული noun (supernatural being)
- სული noun (enthusiasm)
German
4 entries- Alkohol noun (alcohol)
- Geist noun (soul)
- Geist noun (supernatural being)
- Schnaps noun (alcohol)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌰𐌷𐌼𐌰 noun (soul)
Greek
4 entries- οινόπνευμα noun (alcohol)
- πνεύμα noun (soul)
- πνεύμα noun (supernatural being)
- πνεύμα noun (manner or style)
Gujarati
1 entries- આત્મા noun (soul)
Hebrew
3 entries- סְפִּירְט noun (alcohol)
- רוּחַ noun (soul)
- רוּחַ noun (supernatural being)
Hindi
4 entries- अदृश्य noun (supernatural being)
- आत्मा noun (soul)
- प्राण noun (soul)
- प्रेत noun (supernatural being)
Hungarian
4 entries- alkohol noun (alcohol)
- kedv noun (enthusiasm)
- lélek noun (soul)
- szellem noun (soul)
Iban
1 entries- ayu noun (enthusiasm)
Icelandic
1 entries- andi noun (soul)
Indonesian
4 entries- jiwa noun (soul)
- roh noun (soul)
- ruh noun (supernatural being)
- semangat noun (enthusiasm)
Ingrian
3 entries- henki noun (soul)
- henki noun (supernatural being)
- pirttu noun (alcohol)
Interlingua
1 entries- spirito noun (soul)
Iranian Persian
4 entries- اَلْکُل noun (alcohol)
- روح noun (soul)
- رَوَان noun (soul)
- مینو noun (supernatural being)
Irish
3 entries- alcól noun (alcohol)
- sprid noun (supernatural being)
- sprid noun (enthusiasm)
Italian
4 entries- spirito noun (soul)
- spirito noun (supernatural being)
- spirito noun (enthusiasm)
- spirito noun (manner or style)
Japanese
4 entries- アルコール noun (alcohol)
- 妖怪 noun (supernatural being)
- 精神 noun (soul)
- 精霊 noun (supernatural being)
Karok
1 entries- ikxaréeyav noun (supernatural being)
Kazakh
1 entries- рух noun (soul)
Khmer
1 entries- ព្រលឹង noun (soul)
Korean
4 entries- 굿것 noun (supernatural being)
- 귀신 noun (supernatural being)
- 기풍 noun (enthusiasm)
- 넋 noun (soul)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- рух noun (soul)
Ladin
1 entries- spirt noun (soul)
Lao
2 entries- ຈິດ noun (soul)
- ວິນຍານ noun (soul)
Latgalian
2 entries- dvēsele noun (soul)
- gors noun (soul)
Latin
4 entries- alcohol noun (alcohol)
- animus noun (soul)
- animus noun (supernatural being)
- animus noun (enthusiasm)
Latvian
2 entries- dvēsele noun (soul)
- gars noun (soul)
Lingala
2 entries- elimo noun (soul)
- molimo noun (soul)
Lithuanian
4 entries- degtinė noun (alcohol)
- dvasia noun (soul)
- spiritas noun (alcohol)
- šmėkla noun (soul)
Luganda
1 entries- omwoyo noun (soul)
Luxembourgish
2 entries- Geescht noun (soul)
- Séil noun (soul)
Macedonian
2 entries- дух noun (soul)
- душа noun (soul)
Malay
4 entries- roh noun (soul)
- semangat noun (soul)
- semangat noun (supernatural being)
- semangat noun (enthusiasm)
Maltese
1 entries- ruħ noun (soul)
Manchu
2 entries- ᡥᡠᡨᡠ noun (supernatural being)
- ᡶᠠᠶᠠᠩᡤᠠ noun (supernatural being)
Maore Comorian
1 entries- djini noun (supernatural being)
Mongolian
1 entries- сүнс noun (soul)
Māori
4 entries- apa noun (supernatural being)
- apa noun (supernatural being)
- apahau noun (soul)
- apahau noun (supernatural being)
Navajo
1 entries- níłchʼi noun (supernatural being)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- ruh noun (soul)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- kjerne noun (soul)
- sjel noun (soul)
- sprit noun (alcohol)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- sprit noun (alcohol)
Occitan
1 entries- esperit noun (soul)
Ojibwe
1 entries- manidoo noun (supernatural being)
Old English
2 entries- gāst noun (soul)
- gāst noun (supernatural being)
Old High German
2 entries- ferah noun (soul)
- geist noun (soul)
Old Irish
2 entries- spirut noun (soul)
- spirut noun (supernatural being)
Old Saxon
1 entries- gēst noun (soul)
Old Turkic
1 entries- 𐱅𐰃𐰤 noun (soul)
Ossetian
1 entries- уд noun (soul)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- روح noun (soul)
Pashto
1 entries- روح noun (soul)
Polish
4 entries- alkohol noun (alcohol)
- duch noun (soul)
- duch noun (supernatural being)
- duch noun (enthusiasm)
Portuguese
4 entries- espírito noun (soul)
- espírito noun (supernatural being)
- jeito noun (manner or style)
- álcool noun (alcohol)
Quechua
1 entries- nuna noun (soul)
Romanian
4 entries- duh noun (soul)
- duh noun (supernatural being)
- spirit noun (soul)
- spirit noun (enthusiasm)
Russian
4 entries- алкого́ль noun (alcohol)
- воодушевле́ние noun (enthusiasm)
- дух noun (soul)
- дух noun (supernatural being)
Saho
1 entries- rooxe noun (soul)
Sardinian
1 entries- ispìritu noun (soul)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- aigne noun (soul)
- anam noun (soul)
- meanmna noun (enthusiasm)
- misneachd noun (enthusiasm)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- duh noun (enthusiasm)
- duh noun (manner or style)
- duša noun (soul)
- dȕh noun (soul)
Sicilian
1 entries- spìritu noun (soul)
Slovak
4 entries- duch noun (soul)
- duch noun (supernatural being)
- duch noun (manner or style)
- duša noun (soul)
Slovene
4 entries- duh noun (soul)
- duh noun (supernatural being)
- duh noun (enthusiasm)
- duh noun (manner or style)
Somali
1 entries- ruux noun (soul)
Sotho
1 entries- moya noun (soul)
Southern Altai
3 entries- кут noun (soul)
- тын noun (soul)
- ээ noun (soul)
Spanish
4 entries- alcohol noun (alcohol)
- alma noun (soul)
- bebida espirituosa noun (alcohol)
- espíritu noun (soul)
Swahili
4 entries- pepo noun (supernatural being)
- roho noun (soul)
- roho noun (supernatural being)
- spiriti noun (alcohol)
Swedish
4 entries- alkohol noun (alcohol)
- anda noun (enthusiasm)
- anda noun (manner or style)
- ande noun (soul)
Tagalog
4 entries- batlaya noun (soul)
- diwa noun (soul)
- espiritu noun (soul)
- espiritu noun (supernatural being)
Tajik
1 entries- рӯҳ noun (soul)
Telugu
4 entries- అత్యుత్సాహవంతుడు noun (supernatural being)
- కుతూహలము noun (enthusiasm)
- గుండె ధైర్యము noun (soul)
- వ్యక్తిత్వము noun (manner or style)
Thai
3 entries- จิต noun (soul)
- จิตวิญญาณ noun (soul)
- วิญญาณ noun (soul)
Tlingit
1 entries- yéik noun (supernatural being)
Tocharian B
1 entries- mot noun (alcohol)
Turkish
4 entries- ispirto noun (alcohol)
- ruh noun (soul)
- ruh noun (supernatural being)
- ruh noun (enthusiasm)
Turkmen
1 entries- ruh noun (soul)
Ukrainian
4 entries- алкого́ль noun (alcohol)
- дух noun (soul)
- дух noun (supernatural being)
- дух noun (manner or style)
Urdu
2 entries- آتْما noun (soul)
- رُوح noun (soul)
Uyghur
1 entries- روھ noun (soul)
Uzbek
1 entries- ruh noun (soul)
Venetan
1 entries- spirito noun (soul)
Vietnamese
3 entries- hồn noun (soul)
- rượu noun (alcohol)
- tinh linh noun (supernatural being)
Welsh
3 entries- gwirod noun (alcohol)
- ysbryd noun (soul)
- ysbryd noun (supernatural being)
West-Frisian
1 entries- geast noun (soul)
White Hmong
1 entries- dab noun (soul)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- murup noun (soul)
Yiddish
2 entries- גײַסט noun (soul)
- רוח noun (soul)
Yámana
1 entries- kašpíx noun (soul)
Zulu
1 entries- umoya noun (soul)
ǃXóõ
2 entries- ǃnáã noun (soul)
- ǃnáã-sé noun (soul)
Sample sentences
41 total sentences available.
Your undaunted spirit will carry you through.
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The athlete was full of spirit and confidence.
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Scott is an entrepreneur with much spirit of enterprise.
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