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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