disembodied
Collocations
3ADJ.
immaterial, voic
VERB + DISEMBODIED
feel, heard, like
DISEMBODIED + NOUN
soul, spirit
Definitions
adj
Having no material body, immaterial; incorporeal or insubstantial.
Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
“[W]hen it's over you feel so extraordinarily pure. You feel like a disembodied spirit, immaterial; and you seem to be able to touch beauty as though it were a palpable thing; and you feel an intimate communion with the breeze, and with the trees breaking into leaf, and with the iridescence of the river. […]”
Of a body part, separated from the body.
Disembodied ringlets from hair that look like yours
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — not having a material body
- discorporate
- unembodied
- bodiless
- unbodied
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
5Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
Wiktionary“[W]hen it's over you feel so extraordinarily pure. You feel like a disembodied spirit, immaterial; and you seem to be able to touch beauty as though it were a palpable thing; and you feel an intimate
WiktionaryYou'd have thought that this Wickham would have learned at her mother's knee that the last thing a fellow in a highly nervous condition wants, when he's searching someone's room, is a disembodied voic
WiktionaryHe heard a disembodied voice.
Tatoeba · #5394553Tom's disembodied voice spoke to the undead army.
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