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Another word for soul

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Noun

  1. The vital principle or animating force within living beings

    See also:

    body

  2. The essential being of a person, regarded as immaterial and immortal

      1. A force or principle believed to animate living beings.
      2. A force or principle believed to animate humans and often to endure after departing from the body of a person at death; the soul.
      3. The Holy Spirit.
    See also:

    be

  3. A member of the human race

      1. A character in a literary work.
      2. A person.
      3. A person of distinction.
      1. A living human. Often used in combination:
      2. An individual of specified character:
      3. The composite of characteristics that make up an individual personality; the self.
      1. A social gathering especially for pleasure or amusement:
      2. A group of people who have gathered to participate in an activity:
      3. A group of soldiers selected for a duty or mission:
      1. Liable or subject to death; not immortal:
      2. Of or relating to humans as being subject to death:
      3. Causing death; fatal:
      1. An adult male human.
      2. A human regardless of sex or age; a person.
      3. A human or an adult male human belonging to a specific occupation, group, nationality, or other category. Often used in combination:
      1. The property or quality that distinguishes living organisms from dead organisms and inanimate matter, manifested in functions such as metabolism, growth, reproduction, and response to stimuli or adaptation to the environment originating from within the organism.
      2. The characteristic state or condition of a living organism.
      3. Living organisms considered as a group:
      1. Of or relating to an individual, especially a single human:
      2. By or for one person:
      3. Existing as a distinct entity; separate:
      1. A member of the primate genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens, distinguished from other apes by a large brain and the capacity for speech.
      2. A person:
      3. Of, relating to, or characteristic of humans:
      1. Used as a disparaging term for a gay man or lesbian.
      1. A living being, especially an animal:
      2. A human.
      3. An imaginary or fantastical being:
      1. The entire material or physical structure of an organism, especially of a human or animal.
      2. The physical aspect of a person as opposed to the spirit; the flesh.
      3. A corpse or carcass.
      1. The state or quality of having existence:
      2. The totality of all things that exist:
      3. A person:
    See also:

    beings

  4. The most central and material part

      1. The main claim or most important aspect of a complaint against a defendant.
      1. That which has mass and occupies space; matter.
      2. A material of a particular kind or constitution.
      3. A drug, chemical, or other material (such as glue) that one is dependent on or uses habitually and that is often illegal or subject to government regulation:
      1. The material out of which something is made or formed; substance.
      2. The essential substance or elements; essence:
      3. Unspecified material:
      1. A force or principle believed to animate living beings.
      2. A force or principle believed to animate humans and often to endure after departing from the body of a person at death; the soul.
      3. The Holy Spirit.
      1. The usually underground portion of a plant that lacks buds, leaves, or nodes and serves as support, draws minerals and water from the surrounding soil, and sometimes stores food.
      2. Any of various other underground plant parts, especially an underground stem such as a rhizome, corm, or tuber.
      3. The embedded part of an organ or structure such as a hair, tooth, or nerve, that serves as a base or support.
      1. The pure, highly concentrated essence of a thing.
      2. The purest or most typical instance:
      3. In ancient and medieval philosophy, the fifth and highest essence after the four elements of earth, air, fire, and water, thought to be the substance of the heavenly bodies and latent in all things.
      1. The soft, spongy tissue in the center of the stems of most vascular plants, consisting mainly of parenchyma.
      2. The soft inner substance of a feather or hair.
      3. The spinal cord.
      1. A protuberance or knob.
      2. A small lump.
      3. The essence; the core:
      1. The edible flesh of animals, especially that of mammals as opposed to that of fish or poultry.
      2. The edible part, as of a piece of fruit or a nut.
      3. The essence, substance, or gist:
      1. Bone marrow.
      2. The spinal cord.
      3. The marrow squash.
      1. A grain or seed, as of a cereal grass, enclosed in a husk.
      2. The usually edible seed inside the hard covering of a nut or fruit stone.
      3. The central or most important part; the core:
      1. The chambered muscular organ in vertebrates that pumps blood received from the veins into the arteries, thereby maintaining the flow of blood through the entire circulatory system.
      2. A similarly functioning structure in invertebrates.
      3. The area that is the approximate location of the heart in the body; the breast.
      1. The central idea; the essence.
      2. The grounds for action in a suit.
      1. The intrinsic or indispensable quality or qualities that serve to characterize or identify something:
      2. The inherent, unchanging nature of a thing or class of things.
      3. The most important part or aspect of something:
      1. The central or innermost part:
      2. The hard or fibrous central part of certain fruits, such as the apple or pear, containing the seeds.
      3. The basic or most important part; the crucial element or essence:
    See also:

    be

  5. The seat of a person's innermost emotions and feelings

      1. The chambered muscular organ in vertebrates that pumps blood received from the veins into the arteries, thereby maintaining the flow of blood through the entire circulatory system.
      2. A similarly functioning structure in invertebrates.
      3. The area that is the approximate location of the heart in the body; the breast.
      1. Either of two milk-secreting, glandular organs on the chest of a woman; the female mammary gland.
      2. A corresponding rudimentary gland in a human male, especially when enlarged by exposure to estrogen or appearing to be enlarged by overlying body fat.
      3. The superior ventral surface of the human body, extending from the neck to the abdomen.
      1. The chest of a human:
      2. A woman's breast or breasts.
      3. The part of a garment covering the chest or breasts.
    Idioms:
    See also:

    feelings

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for soul

Noun

  1. A disembodied spirit

  2. Essential nature

  3. Mind

      1. The process of thinking; cogitation:
      2. A product of thinking or other mental activity:
      3. The faculty of thinking or reasoning:
      1. The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge:
      2. Information, especially secret information gathered about an actual or potential enemy or adversary.
      3. The gathering of such information:
      1. The ability to learn and reason; the capacity for knowledge and understanding:
      2. A person's individual ability to think and reason:
      3. A person of great intellectual ability:
    See also:

    mind

  4. The more lofty human qualities

      1. A feeling of profound awe and respect and often love.
      2. An act showing respect, especially a bow or curtsy.
      3. Used as a form of address for certain members of the Christian clergy:
      1. The act or practice of composing poems.
      2. Poems regarded as forming a division of literature.
      3. The poetic works of a given author, group, nation, or kind.
      1. The conscious use of the imagination in the production of objects intended to be contemplated or appreciated as beautiful, as in the arrangement of forms, sounds, or words.
      2. Such activity in the visual or plastic arts:
      3. Products of this activity; imaginative works considered as a group:
      1. Heroic conduct or behavior.
      2. Heroic characteristics or qualities; courage.
      1. The arts, beliefs, customs, institutions, and other products of human work and thought considered as a unit, especially with regard to a particular time or social group:
      2. These arts, beliefs, and other products considered with respect to a particular subject or mode of expression:
      3. The set of predominating attitudes and behavior that characterize a group or organization:
      1. The study of the nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on logical reasoning.
      2. A system of thought based on or involving such study:
      3. The study of the theoretical underpinnings of a particular field or discipline:
      1. The act or practice of envisioning things in an ideal and often impractical form.
      2. Pursuit of one's ideals, often without regard to practical ends.
      3. Idealized treatment of a subject in literature or art.
      1. An act or a course of action that is required of one by position, social custom, law, or religion:
      2. Required action or service:
      3. Active military service:
      1. High respect, as that shown for special merit; recognition or esteem:
      2. Great privilege:
      3. Good name; reputation:
      1. A tender feeling toward another; fondness.
      2. Feeling or emotion:
      3. A disposition to feel, do, or say; a propensity.
      1. A strong feeling of affection and concern toward another person, as that arising from kinship or close friendship.
      2. A strong feeling of affection and concern for another person accompanied by sexual attraction.
      3. A feeling of devotion or adoration toward God or a god.
      1. The state or quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face danger, fear, or vicissitudes with self-possession, confidence, and resolution; bravery.

  5. A person

    See also:

    person

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Sentence Examples

  • Carmen had been his soul mate for a long time.

  • Love is at the soul of everything.

  • With all his soul he had always sought one thing--to be perfectly good--so he could not be afraid of death.

  • "Swear on your soul?" she asked.

  • "I see a man who just lost the last connection to someone he loved to his soul," she whispered.

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