BODILESS Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

bodiless

adjective

ˈbä-di-ləs

Definition of bodiless

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

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Adjective

In the years since grit’s heyday, much of American culture has succumbed to a state of emotional and spiritual defeat.

— Meghan O’Gieblyn, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
Leadership continuously draws from a finite reserve of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual energy.

— Dennis Volpe, Forbes.com, 14 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

For decades, metaphysical stores and botanicas have sold religious items and offered spiritual cleansings and readings in spite of stigmatization and gentrification.

— Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2026
Eddy has been spared the worst violence; the novel casts his racial privilege as a kind of metaphysical exemption.

— Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of metaphysical

Adjective

The cost of our avoidance of clozapine is invisible but enormous, measured in people who stay sick, and in lives that end early, for want of a drug already sitting on the shelf.

— Nitin Gogtay, STAT, 4 Sep. 2026
From the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco to the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, without a doubt, one of the most important aspects in their invisible architecture was the stress test.

— Matthew Peters, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of invisible

Adjective

But the choice of this particular angle of attack reveals the almost supernatural staying power of a rumor, or urban legend, that started roughly four decades ago.

— Allen Salkin, HollywoodReporter, 14 Sep. 2026
The original seven-season series followed Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers, a young woman who slays vampires, demons and other supernatural creatures with the help of her friends.

— Isabelle Farina, Variety, 13 Sep. 2026

Definition of supernatural

Adjective

Musicians have long sought to give form to the formless, unconstrained yet palatable, inspirational and divine.

— Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2026
Without training in how to respond to it, a threat can feel not just frightening but formless, something to be endured rather than navigated.

— Andrei Popoviciu, The Dial, 21 July 2026

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