metaphysical
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
metaphysical
adj 1: pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics;
"metaphysical philosophy"
2: without material form or substance; "metaphysical forces"
3: highly abstract and overly theoretical; "metaphysical
reasoning"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Metaphysical \Met`a*phys"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. m['e]taphysique. See
{Metaphysics}.]
1. Of or pertaining to metaphysics.
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2. According to rules or principles of metaphysics; as,
metaphysical reasoning.
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3. Preternatural or supernatural. [Obs.]
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The golden round
Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem
To have thee crowned withal. --Shak.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "metaphysical":
Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Megarian, Stoic, anagogic, animist,
animistic, atomistic, bodiless, cabalic, cabalistic, cosmotheistic,
discarnate, eclectic, empirical, esoteric, eudaemonistic,
existential, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, humanist, humanistic,
idealistic, incorporeal, instrumentalist, insubstantial,
materialistic, mechanistic, metaphysic, monistic, mysterious,
mystic, naturalistic, nominalist, nonmaterial, nonphysical,
numinous, occult, panlogistical, pantheistic, positivist,
positivistic, pragmatic, pragmatist, preternatural, rationalistic,
realist, realistic, scholastic, sensationalistic, spiritual,
superhuman, superior, supermundane, supernatural, supramundane,
supranatural, syncretistic, theistic, theosophical, theosophist,
transcendent, transcendental, transcendentalist,
transcendentalistic, unearthly, unfleshly, unphysical, utilitarian,
vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic
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