bodiless

adjective

ˈbä-di-ləs How to pronounce bodiless (audio)
Definition of bodilessnext
as in spiritual
not composed of matter ghosts are supposed to be bodiless

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Recent Examples of bodiless The important things are often bodiless. — Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026 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. — Lauren Oyler, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bodiless
  1. spiritual
  2. incorporeal
  3. metaphysical
  4. invisible
  5. supernatural
  6. formless
Adjective
  • Created with his wife Nkuthazo Alexis Dyalvane, the work incorporates cow hair, leather and grass, influenced by ritual adornments, reflecting ancestral knowledge, healing and spiritual transformation.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The President of the United States (John Goodman) and his cabinet of hawkish generals, gargoyle-ish officials, and speaking-in-tongues spiritual advisors gather at the oilman’s house to discuss next steps.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of spiritual
Adjective
  • Followers of the Abrahamic religions are supposed to treat God as immaterial and incorporeal, yet these early Yahweh worshippers imagined him as fully embodied.
    — Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Positioned as a large-scale genre event, the series updates the legendary SFX property with a contemporary political and social edge, with Shun Oguri leading the cast as a detective hunting a seemingly incorporeal killer.
    — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 27 Jan. 2026
Definition of incorporeal
Adjective
  • Lee’s lines have the intimacy and metaphysical heft of prayer; their elegant recursions and repetitions call to mind the cycles of life, death, and rebirth.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Dürrenmatt is more focused on moral than metaphysical questions.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of metaphysical
Adjective
  • The challenge is that the cost of prevention is visible today, while the value of preventing a mistake is invisible unless something goes wrong.
    — George Achilleos, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Among other reasons, particle physicists can use it to learn more about dark matter, a largely invisible substance that constitutes 80% of the matter in the universe.
    — Cara Giovanetti, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of invisible
Adjective
  • As a forbidden attraction grows between the two men, tragedy unleashes supernatural forces upon their deeply religious community.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2026
  • In other hands, this would set up a supernatural TV procedural.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of supernatural
Adjective
  • Inevitably, much of that knowledge was still undigested and poorly sorted; as a result the planet, viewed from Europe, must have seemed a rather impressionistic and formless place.
    — Ian Tattersall, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Musicians have long sought to give form to the formless, unconstrained yet palatable, inspirational and divine.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2026
Definition of formless

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“Bodiless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bodiless. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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