Metaphysical
[metə'fɪzɪk(ə)l] or [,mɛtə'fɪzɪkl]
Definition
(adj.) highly abstract and overly theoretical; 'metaphysical reasoning' .
(adj.) without material form or substance; 'metaphysical forces' .
(adj.) pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics; 'metaphysical philosophy' .
Edited by Jeanne--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to metaphysics.
(a.) According to rules or principles of metaphysics; as, metaphysical reasoning.
(a.) Preternatural or supernatural.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Mental, intellectual, psychological.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Mental, intellectual, abstract, Ideal, conceptional, subjective, relational,notional, abstruse, psychical
ANT:Physical, physiological, palpable, external, substantial, practical, corporal,material, objective
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Examples
- Are you afraid of their biting, or is it a metaphysical antipathy? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- You explain this circumstance by entering into the state of her mind, and deducing from it a metaphysical conclusion. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In the second place, those notes represent a medical and metaphysical theory. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But what have I here said, that reflections very refined and metaphysical have little or no influence upon us? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Her father liked the metaphysical streak which had unconsciously got into it, so that was allowed to remain though she had her doubts about it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Some of his reasonings not appearing to me well-founded, I wrote a little metaphysical piece, in which I made remarks on them. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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