disembodied

/ ˌdɪsɪmˈbɒdɪd /

adjective

1. lacking a body or freed from the body; incorporeal
2. lacking in substance, solidity, or any firm relation to reality

Example Sentences

The single “Light Sleeper” arrived with a music video boasting a floating disembodied head arriving about halfway through, creating a visual that had no aesthetic father in the culture at that point.

From Los Angeles Times

Microphones scramble dialogue so that voices become disembodied.

From Los Angeles Times

Eventually, the dancers rise and take on yet another kind of unison, all mouthing a single disembodied voice: Doherty’s.

From New York Times

Behind the musicians, sculptures of bright pink disembodied legs and a matching pink unicorn in medieval armor add trippy ambience.

From Los Angeles Times

The proposal was based in large part on the results of a new battery of tests that are performed on disembodied cells rather than whole lab animals.

From Salon

Related Words

• ghostly