mindmap root((身体)) bodily suggests contrast with mental or spiritual: an intellectual who had ~ needs. physical suggests less explicitly an organic structure: their ordeal left them at the point of ~ exhaustion. corporeal suggests the substance of which the body is composed: a divinity who assumed ~ existence. corporal applies chiefly to things that affect or involve the body: a teacher who still used ~ punishment. somatic implies contrast with psychical and is free of theological or poetic connotations: ~ reactions to the drug.