DISEMBODIED Synonyms: 116 Similar and Opposite Words

disembodied

adjective

as in bodiless

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Recent Examples of disembodied The disembodied voice of a Genius employee would have told him straightaway that, according to SAOT, the decision was close, but that Haaland was factually onside. — Graham Scott, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026 As Wired reported, glitches can happen when workers move too quickly, including disembodied hands obscuring pages. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026 But all that data ingestion has mostly enhanced disembodied AI. — Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026 In what should be a surprise to no one, the toddler who learned to hold completely still for regular, two-hour MRIs grew up to be a rather disembodied woman who lives almost exclusively in her brain. — Rebekah Taussig, Time, 7 July 2026 The six-minute quasi-title track works as a centerpiece, its compressed qanun (a stringed Middle Eastern instrument, played here by the acclaimed Syrian musician Maya Youssef) looping in the background as electronic pulses, foreboding pianos, and disembodied voices swirl around the mix. — Alex Robert Ross, Pitchfork, 15 June 2026 As is Takal, clearly having fun with the film’s queasy, lurching atmospherics, abetted by the sparse, shivery, atonal chimes of Jonathan Goldsmith’s score, and the floating, disembodied feel of Robert Leitzell’s camerawork. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 13 June 2026 In both Wilde’s play and Strauss’s opera, Salome is obsessed with Jokanaan (John the Baptist), who is being held as a political prisoner in a cistern, his disembodied voice floating around the stage. — Literary Hub, 20 May 2026 Adults would look around, trying to spy the location of the body behind the disembodied voice. — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 May 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for disembodied

Adjective

The important things are often bodiless.

— Literary Hub, 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

Definition of bodiless

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

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

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

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

Definition of formless

Adjective

In Ayurveda, Prana, the life force carried by the breath, is understood to nourish both the mind and body and can be viewed as a nonphysical substance, finer than oxygen.

— Trisha Swift, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
In accounting, intangible assets are nonphysical possessions including such things as brands and intellectual property, software, mineral rights ‒ and contracts.

— Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025

Definition of nonphysical

Adjective

In early 2019, Philadelphia was one of six brands the company wrote down as the value of its intangible assets fell.

— Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026
Anderson, though, graded out at the very top of all of the Texans’ quantifiable and intangible evaluation areas.

— Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of intangible

Adjective

The space will become an immaterial garden with intricate cutouts creating shadows, reflections and transparency for viewing the jewelry creations.

— Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2026
But that doesn’t mean what happens along the way is immaterial.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of immaterial

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