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DISEMBODIED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does disembodied mean?
• DISEMBODIED (adjective)
The adjective DISEMBODIED has 1 sense:
1. not having a material body
Familiarity information: DISEMBODIED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not having a material body
Synonyms:
bodiless; discorporate; disembodied; unbodied; unembodied
Context example:
bodiless ghosts
Similar:
immaterial; incorporeal (without material form or substance)
Context examples
In pondering the great mystery, I thought of Helen Burns, recalled her dying words—her faith—her doctrine of the equality of disembodied souls.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Walled by the living clay, that fierce intelligence we had known burned on; but it burned on in silence and darkness. And it was disembodied.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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