as in spiritual
not composed of matter
ghosts are supposed to be bodiless
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Recent Examples of bodiless
That the bodiless voice of Captain Kafetzis was now coming to me live from above my proprietary Cashmere mattress indicated the obvious seriousness of what had happened in the night.
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Lauren Oyler, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
Lauren Oyler, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bodiless
Adjective
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This choice jells with the Spanish psytrance producer’s generally hard aesthetic: her intricate music — laced with a spiritual chants and loaded with kickdrum — is intense, as are looks favoring latex and snakes as accessories.—
Katie Bain,
Billboard,
10 Apr. 2025
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The most captivating of the three love stories is Smoke’s reunion with Annie (Wunmi Mosaku), a Hoodoo conjurer and Orisha spiritual healer who runs a small plantation store, where their infant son is buried outside under an oak tree.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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If reason teaches that God is incorporeal, this means that God has no body; God does not physically see, nor do people see God.—
Randy L. Friedman,
The Conversation,
16 Feb. 2024
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The digital files are incorporeal.—
BostonGlobe.com,
BostonGlobe.com,
9 June 2021
Adjective
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In the 19th century, philosophers and poets dabbled with it in the pursuit of metaphysical insights.—
Ella Jeffries,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Apr. 2025
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To the north is Vulcan’s Forge, Russell’s custom jewelry operation; to the south is Aquarius, a new-age metaphysical store owned by Barbara.—
David Hudnall,
Kansas City Star,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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All of this stems from a toxic and mostly invisible danger, largely the product of burning things for fuel and letting the remnant drift into the air and then into us—which is what happens unless the government regulates that process.—
Zoë Schlanger,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2025
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And because more than 80% of disabilities are invisible, most aren’t likely to be believed.—
N. Goldberg,
New York Daily News,
9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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What’s interesting is supernatural activity spiked after the first nuclear reactors (assembled in Hyde Park) were buried in Red Gate Woods nearby.—
Christopher Borrelli,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2025
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This psychological drama examines the aftermath of a boarding school suicide, with two students uncovering hidden truths through a supernatural possession element.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Elaborating on the different forms of Shiva worshipped across cultures, Tripathi says, the concept of divine being is difficult to understand in its nirguna (formless) form.—
Sweta Kaushal,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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The Right was formless, fractured, a collection of irritable mental gestures -- and then William F. Buckley Jr. founded this journal, bringing the various respectable strands of conservatism together and discarding the others.—
Ramesh Ponnuru,
National Review,
19 Dec. 2024
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“Bodiless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bodiless. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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