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spirit

noun

1 spirit

The vital principle or animating force within living things.

Roget 980: demon, daemon, demonry, demonology; evil genius, fiend, familiar, daeva, devil; bad spirit, unclean spirit; cacodemon, incubus, ... show more

Roget 317: immateriality, immaterialness; incorporeity, spirituality; inextension; astral plane.    personality; I, myself, me; ego, spirit etc. (soul) ... show more

Roget 574: vigor, power, force; boldness, raciness etc. adj.; intellectual, force; spirit, point, antithesis, piquance, piquancy; ... show more

2 spirit

The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people.

synonyms: feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell, tone.

Roget 820: affections, affect; character, qualities, disposition, nature, spirit, tone; temper, temperament; diathesis, idiosyncrasy; cast of mind, cast of soul, ... show more

Dutch: accent, gevoel, toon

3 spirit

A fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character.

Polish: duch

4 spirit

Any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings.

synonym: disembodied spirit.

Dutch: ziel, geest

5 spirit

The state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection):
— He was in good spirits.
— His spirit rose.

synonym: emotional state.

Dutch: gemoedsgesteldheid, gemoedstoestand

6 spirit

The intended meaning of a communication.

synonyms: intent, purport.

Roget 516: meaning; signification, significance; sense, expression; import, purport; force; drift, tenor, spirit, bearing, coloring; scope.    ... show more

Dutch: geest

7 spirit

Animation and energy in action or expression.

synonyms: life, liveliness, sprightliness.

Roget 359: life, vitality, viability; animation; vital spark, vital flame, soul, spirit.    respiration, wind; breath of life, breath of one's nostrils; oxygen, air.    ... show more

Roget 682: activity; briskness, liveliness etc. adj.; animation, life, vivacity, spirit, dash, energy; snap, vim.    nimbleness, ... show more

Dutch: levendigheid, beweeglijkheid

8 spirit

An inclination or tendency of a certain kind.

synonym: heart.

Roget 450: intellect, mind, understanding, reason, thinking principle; rationality; cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties, discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties; faculties, senses, ... show more

Roget 861: courage, bravery, valor; resoluteness, boldness etc. adj.; spirit, daring, gallantry, intrepidity; contempt of danger, defiance of danger; derring-do; ... show more

Roget 5: intrinsicality, inbeing, inherence, inhesion; subjectiveness; ego; egohood; essence, noumenon; essentialness etc. adj.; essential part, quintessence, ... show more

verb

1 spirit

Infuse with spirit:
— The company spirited him up.

synonyms: inspirit, spirit up.


Moby thesaurus: Geist, Masan, Muse, abandon, abduce, abduct, activity, adventuresomeness, adventurousness, affective meaning, afflatus, aggression, aggressiveness, aim, air, airy nothing, alacrity, alcohol, ambitiousness, anima ... show more.

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